CONTAGION
\kəntˈe͡ɪd͡ʒən], \kəntˈeɪdʒən], \k_ə_n_t_ˈeɪ_dʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONTAGION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
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The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
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Venom; poison.
By Oddity Software
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The giving of disease to another by direct or indirect contact; an agency, as virus, used to transmit disease.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Same etymon. The transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact. The term has also, been applied, by some, to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter bogs fens &c., but in this sense it is now abandoned. Contagious diseases are produced either by a virus, capable of causing them by inoculation, as in small-pox, cow-pox, hydrophobia, syphilis, &c. or by miasmata, proceeding from a sick individual, as in plague typhus gravior, and in measles and scarlatina. [?] Scrofula, phthisis pulmonalis, and cancer, have, by some been esteemed contagious but apparently without foundation. Physicians are, indeed, by no means unanimous in deciding what diseases are contagious, and what not. The contagion of plague and typhus especially of the latter is denied by many. It seems probable, that a disease may be contagious under certain circumstances and not under others.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The communication of disease from one individual to another by means of direct or mediate contact.
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The material cause or virus of a contagious disease.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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