A contagious disease is a subset category of transmissible diseases (can transmit from person to another) usually infections or some non-infection diseases, which are transmitted to other persons, either by physical contact (hence the name-origin) with the person suffering the disease, or by their secretions or objects touched by them or airborne ...
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• A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of trans......
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An infectious disease transmissible by direct or indirect contact; now used synonymously with communicable disease. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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communicable disease.
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An infection transmitted through the air, by water, food, objects, direct contact or by insects or animals, synonymous with communicable disease.
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Con·ta'gious dis·ease' (Medicine) A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseas...
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. an infectious disease transmissible by direct or indirect contact; now used synonymously with communicable disease.
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It is an infectious disease communicable by contact with one suffering from it, with his bodily discharges, or with an object touched by him for example, cholera and chicken pox.
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n] - any disease easily transmitted by contact
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contagion noun any disease easily transmitted by contact
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A disease that is capable of being spread amongst animals by direct contact, e.g. Pasteurella spp. in nasal droplets.
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