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infectious disease 名詞
傳染病,傳染性疾病
Zy·mot·ic a.
1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.
2. Med. Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.
Zymotic disease Med., any epidemic, endemic, contagious, or sporadic affection which is produced by some morbific principle or organism acting on the system like a ferment.
Note: Now (2004) referred to as an infectious disease. -- PJC
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In·fec·tious dis·ease. (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. (b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.
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infectious disease
n : a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact