Contagion: alternatives and connections

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.

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A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidi…

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The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

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An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

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Leprosy; also, a leper.

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Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken po…

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the measles.

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Scarlet fever.

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Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

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Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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The act or process of infecting.

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The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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