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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..

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

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

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

Erysipelas :: Erysipelas (n.) St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single point, spreads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically..

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..

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

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

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

Epidemic :: Epidemic (n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror..

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

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

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

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease..

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

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..

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

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

Epidemically :: Epidemically (adv.) In an epidemic manner.

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

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