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Noun contagion has 3 senses
- contagious disease, contagion - any disease easily transmitted by contact
--1 is a kind of communicable disease
--1 has particulars: | | influenza, flu, grippe; measles, rubeola, morbilli; diphtheria; scarlet fever, scarlatina; pox; Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection, trench mouth; venereal disease, VD, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease |
- infection, contagion, transmission - an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
--2 is a kind of incident
- contagion, infection - the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
--3 is a kind of communication
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