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Alt. of Epidemical

Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

Alt. of Epidemical

Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes epidemics.

Attacking many at the same time: said of a disease.

A general attack of a disease throughout a locality.

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.

Applied to a disease affecting the masses.

A prevailing disease.

General; prevailing, as a disease.

Med. Affecting many in a community at once.

Wide-spread disease, excitement, influence, etc.

Attacking many persons; prevailing generally; affecting great numbers.

An infectious or contagious disease, attacking many persons at the same time, but of a temporary character.

Same etymon as Epidemy. Appertaining to an epidemy. An epidemy.

Affecting a great many individuals in rapid succession.

A particular instance of the prevalence of such a disease. The disease itself.

n. An infections or contagious disease which affects numbers of persons at the same time.