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Microzyme :: Microzyme (n.) A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

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

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

Leperous :: Leperous (a.) Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.

Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.

Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Infective :: Infective (a.) Infectious.

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..

Infectiously :: Infectiously (adv.) In an infectious manner.

Zymosis :: Zymosis (n.) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed..

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing..

Catching :: Catching (a.) Infectious; contagious.

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth..

Microphyte :: Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be..

Smittlish :: Smittlish (a.) Infectious; catching.

Infection :: Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused..

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Infectiousness :: Infectiousness (n.) The quality of being infectious.

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

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..

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