Definition of epidemic

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Epidemic (n.) An epidemic disease.

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Grippe :: Grippe (n.) The influenza or epidemic catarrh.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease..
Epidemically :: Epidemically (adv.) In an epidemic manner.
Epidemiography :: Epidemiography (n.) A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases..
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..
Epizootic :: Epizootic (n.) An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
Pebrine :: Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood..
Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) An epidemic disease.
Disappear :: Disappear (v. i.) To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared..
Mumps :: Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
Popular :: Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease..
Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..
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..
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.
Epidemical :: Epidemical (a.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic..
Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.
Cholerine :: Cholerine (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.
Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror..
Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..
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