Defenition of the word infectious disease
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Defenition of the word infectious disease
- Pathogenic condition resulting from invasion of an host by a pathogen that propagates causing infection.
- A disease caused by a microorganism or other agent, such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus, that enters the body of an organism.
- a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Hyponyms for the word infectious disease
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- acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- acute anterior poliomyelitis
- AIDS
- Asiatic cholera
- black vomit
- breakbone fever
- brucellosis
- cholera
- dandy fever
- dengue
- dengue fever
- dysentery
- enteric fever
- epidemic cholera
- epidemic disease
- epidemic parotitis
- frambesia
- framboesia
- Gibraltar fever
- glandular fever
- Hansen's disease
- hepatitis
- herpes
- Indian cholera
- infantile paralysis
- infectious mononucleosis
- kissing disease
- leprosy
- listeria meningitis
- listeriosis
- Malta fever
- Mediterranean fever
- meningitis
- miliary fever
- mono
- mononucleosis
- mumps
- paratyphoid
- paratyphoid fever
- pertussis
- polio
- poliomyelitis
- ratbite fever
- recurrent fever
- relapsing fever
- rheumatic fever
- rickettsial disease
- rickettsiosis
- Rock fever
- sweating sickness
- T.B.
- TB
- tuberculosis
- typhoid
- typhoid fever
- undulant fever
- whooping cough
- yaws
- yellow fever
- yellow jack
Hypernyms for the word infectious disease
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