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noun

Infectious disease n.

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.

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Etymology of 'Infectious disease'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infectious disease" Quotes from Famous Books

... who are lame, crooked, or deformed, or that have the evil, rupture, or any infectious disease, be ...

— London in 1731 • Don Manoel Gonzales

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