noun
any disease easily transmitted by contact
• Syn: ↑contagion
• Derivationally related forms: ↑contagious (for: ↑contagion)
• Hypernyms: ↑communicable disease
• Hyponyms:
↑influenza, ↑flu, ↑grippe, ↑measles, ↑rubeola, ↑morbilli, ↑diphtheria, ↑scarlet fever, ↑scarlatina, ↑pox, ↑Vincent's angina, ↑Vincent's infection, ↑trench mouth, ↑venereal disease, ↑VD, ↑venereal infection, ↑social disease, ↑Cupid's itch, ↑Cupid's disease, ↑Venus's curse, ↑dose, ↑sexually transmitted disease, ↑STD
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noun : a disease communicable by contact with one suffering from it, with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with an object touched by such a patient or his bodily discharges — compare infectious disease; germ theory
Useful english dictionary. 2012.