EPIDEMIC
\ˌɛpɪdˈɛmɪk], \ˌɛpɪdˈɛmɪk], \ˌɛ_p_ɪ_d_ˈɛ_m_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of EPIDEMIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Alt. of Epidemical
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Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
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Alt. of Epidemical
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Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Attacking many at the same time: said of a disease.
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A general attack of a disease throughout a locality.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Noting a disease attacking nearly simultaneously a large number of people in a community; it is distinguished from endemic in that the disease is not indigenous or continuously present but has been introduced from without. 2. The extensive prevalence in a community of a disease brought from without, or a temporary increase in number of cases of an endemic disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Attacking many persons; prevailing generally; affecting great numbers.
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An infectious or contagious disease, attacking many persons at the same time, but of a temporary character.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
