Definition of contagion

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Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact..

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Contagionist :: Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease..
Impregnate :: Impregnate (v. t.) To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact..
Antivariolous :: Antivariolous (a.) Preventing the contagion of smallpox.
Pleuropneumonia :: Pleuropneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) Venom; poison.
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..
Contagium :: Contagium (n.) Contagion; contagious matter.
Contagioned :: Contagioned (a.) Affected by contagion.
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt..
Virus :: Virus (v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there..
Anticontagious :: Anticontagious (a.) Opposing or destroying contagion.
Pestiduct :: Pestiduct (n.) That which conveys contagion or infection.
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