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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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.

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

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

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

Popular :: Popular (a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease..

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..

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