contagious+disease

  • 61contagious equine metritis — (CEM) a highly contagious venereal disease of horses caused by infection with Taylorella equigenitalis; symptoms may include endometritis and salpingitis with a profuse purulent discharge, but sometimes infection is subclinical with only a… …

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  • 62БОЛЕЗНЬ ЗАРАЗНАЯ (COMMUNICABLE DISEASE), БОЛЕЗНЬ ИНФЕКЦИОННАЯ — (contagious disease, infectious disease) заболевание, которое может передаваться от одного человека другому, Заражение происходит при непосредственном контакте; через предметы, которыми пользовался больной инфекционным заболеванием, на которых… …

    Толковый словарь по медицине

  • 63contagious — adjective the disease is highly contagious Syn: infectious, communicable, transmittable, transmissible, spreadable; informal catching; dated infective …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 64contagious abortion — Vet. Pathol. 1. brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang s disease. 2. any of several diseases causing spontaneous abortion of domestic animals …

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  • 65contagious and disgraceful disease a —    venereal disease    Legal jargon in the English law of defamation. If you wrongly imputed it when speaking about a woman, the plaintiff had no need to prove special damage. The Slander of Women Act 1891 also made an imputation of unchastity in …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 66contagious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. catching, infectious, epidemic, communicable, transmittable, pestilential, noxious, contaminative. See transfer, disease. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. communicable, catching, infectious,… …

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  • 67contagious abortion — A disease of cows, generally contracted through the digestive tract from infected food, which causes the premature birth of calves. Gesme v Potter, 118 Or 621, 247 P 765 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 68Health and Disease — ▪ 2009 Introduction Food and Drug Safety.       In 2008 the contamination of infant formula and related dairy products with melamine in China led to widespread health problems in children, including urinary problems and possible renal tube… …

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  • 69Germ theory of disease — The germ theory, also called the pathogenic theory of medicine, is a theory that proposes that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases. Although highly controversial when first proposed, it is now a cornerstone of modern medicine and… …

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  • 70Globalization and disease — Globalization, the flow of information, goods, capital and people across political and geographic boundaries, has also helped to spread some of the deadliest infectious diseases known to humans. Dr. Daulaire. Globalization and Health . Retrieved… …

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