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DIPHTHERIA |
Contagious disease |
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MUMPS |
Contagious disease |
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FLU |
Contagious disease |
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PLAGUE |
Contagious disease |
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RUBELLA |
Contagious disease |
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MEASLES |
Contagious disease |
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IMPETIGO |
Contagious skin disease |
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LUES |
Disease, especially of a contagious kind. |
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CONTAGIOUS |
Conveying or generating disease; pestilential;
poisonous; as, contagious air. |
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CHARBON |
A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and
cattle. See Maligmant pustule. |
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PESTILENCE |
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence,
any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and
devastating. |
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INOCULATION |
The act or practice of communicating a disease to a
person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. |
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GONORRHOEA |
A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary
tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized
by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap. |
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QUARANTINE |
To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given
place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious
disease; to put under, or in, quarantine. |
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FARCY |
A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful
ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the
same nature as glan... |
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ERYSIPELAS |
...ly over its surface. It is usually
regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically. ... |
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SIBBENS |
A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the
yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules
and soft fung... |
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PIP |
A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness,
discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in
the mouth, fo... |
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YAWS |
...a,
characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious
character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants,
strawber... |
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SMALLPOX |
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease
characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption
is at first a collection of... |
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ANTHRAX |
...ascribed
to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the
spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmi... |
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GLANDERS |
A highly contagious and very destructive disease of
horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of
sticky matter from the... |
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LEPROSY |
...s and
joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious. ... |