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Pandemic :: Pandemic (a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

Epidemiology :: Epidemiology (n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

Epidemy :: Epidemy (n.) An epidemic disease.

Grippe :: Grippe (n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.

Influenza :: Influenza (n.) An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever..

Dengue :: Dengue (n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal..

Infection :: Infection (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics..

Epidemic :: Epidemic (a.) Alt. of Epidemica.

Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) An epidemic disease.

Epidemical :: Epidemical (a.) Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil..

Pest :: Pest (n.) A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague..

Cholerine :: Cholerine (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.

Mumps :: Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

Epizootic :: Epizootic (n.) An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

Disappear :: Disappear (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared..

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

Pebrine :: Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood..

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