CONTAGIOUS
\kəntˈe͡ɪd͡ʒəs], \kəntˈeɪdʒəs], \k_ə_n_t_ˈeɪ_dʒ_ə_s]\
Definitions of CONTAGIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
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of or relating to communicable diseases; "by the road to the contagious hospital"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
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Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
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Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Contagiously.
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Contagiousness.
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That may be communicated by contact.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Contagiousness.
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Relating to contagion; transmissible by contact with the sick, noting certain forms of infectious disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That may be communicated by contact, or by a subtile excreted matter; poisonous; pestilential; containing mischief that may be propagated; affecting others. Contagious Diseases Acts, Acts to prevent the spread of certain contagions diseases.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Producing disease by contact or near approach; containing that which may be propagated, as mischief or some affection of the mind.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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.Capable of being transmitted by mediate or immediate contact, Communicable, - as a contagious disease, contagious fever, contagious effluvia &c. Commonly, the epithet infectious, (Prov.) Taking, Catching is applied to those that are communicated by immediate contact as itch syphilis &c.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
By Thomas Sheridan
