infectious_disease
1. [ noun ] (medicine) a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Related terms: communicable_disease tuberculosis dysentery rheumatic_fever yaws leprosy poliomyelitis hepatitis brucellosis typhoid rickettsial_disease infectious_mononucleosis herpes paratyphoid meningitis relapsing_fever dengue cholera yellow_jack epidemic_pleurodynia sweating_sickness whooping_cough plague lassa_fever lgv epidemic_disease ratbite_fever listeriosis mumps AIDS
Similar spelling:   infectious_agent
  infectious_hepatitis