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Cholerine :: Cholerine (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.

Epidemical :: Epidemical (a.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic..

Pandemic :: Pandemic (a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

Influenza :: Influenza (n.) An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever..

Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror..

Popular :: Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease..

Epizootic :: Epizootic (n.) An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease..

Mumps :: Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

Grippe :: Grippe (n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) An epidemic disease.

Disappear :: Disappear (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared..

Epidemic :: Epidemic (a.) Alt. of Epidemica.

Epidemiology :: Epidemiology (n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..

Erysipelas :: Erysipelas (n.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically..

Epidemy :: Epidemy (n.) An epidemic disease.

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

Pebrine :: Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood..

Epidemically :: Epidemically (adv.) In an epidemic manner.

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