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Noun infectious-disease has 1 sense
- infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
--1 is a kind of communicable disease
--1 has particulars: | | AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome; brucellosis, undulant fever, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever; cholera, Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic cholera; dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever; dysentery; epidemic disease; hepatitis; herpes; infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever, kissing disease; leprosy, Hansen's disease; listeriosis, listeria meningitis; meningitis; mumps, epidemic parotitis; paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever; poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis; ratbite fever; rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis; relapsing fever, recurrent fever; rheumatic fever; sweating sickness, miliary fever; tuberculosis, TB, T.B.; typhoid, typhoid fever, enteric fever; whooping cough, pertussis; yaws, frambesia, framboesia; yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit |
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