contagious disease

contagious disease
contagious disease n an infectious disease communicable by contact with one who has it, with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with an object touched by such a patient or by bodily discharges compare COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

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originally, a disease transmitted only by direct physical contact: now usually taken to mean any communicable disease.

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communicable d.

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