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Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..

Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..

Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..

Pestiferous :: Pestiferous (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine..

Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..

Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh..

Farcy :: Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen..

Noncontagious :: Noncontagious (a.) Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.

Loimic :: Loimic (a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

Contagionist :: Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

Rinderpest :: Rinderpest (n.) A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain..

Gonorrhoea :: Gonorrhoea (n.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap..

Plague :: Plague (n.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague..

Lues :: Lues (n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons..

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