- Communicable disease - Contagion - The act or process of infecting. - That which infects, or causes the communicated disease;
any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious
disease is caused. - The state of being infected; contamination by morbific
particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease;
epidemic. - That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection
of vicious principles. - Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband
goods; implication.
- Chronic infectious disease - Communicable disease - Hansen’s disease - A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as
reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These
are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent
nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the
disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition
there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails,
and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and
joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
- Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily
exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. - Conveying or generating disease; pestilential;
poisonous; as, contagious air. - Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting
similar emotions or conduct in others.