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Definitions for: Infectious Disease
[n] a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Webster (1913) Definition: In*fec"tious dis*ease"
(a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and
multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a
germ disease. It may not be contagious.
(b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such
a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or
water, and thus spread without contact with the patient,
as measles.
See Also: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, acute anterior poliomyelitis, AIDS, Asiatic cholera, black vomit, breakbone fever, brucellosis, cholera, communicable disease, dandy fever, dengue, dengue fever, dysentery, enteric fever, epidemic cholera, epidemic disease, epidemic parotitis, frambesia, framboesia, Gibraltar fever, glandular fever, Hansen's disease, hepatitis, herpes, Indian cholera, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, Lassa fever, leprosy, LGV, listeriosis, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, meningitis, miliary fever, mono, mononucleosis, mumps, paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever, pertussis, polio, poliomyelitis, ratbite fever, recurrent fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis, Rock fever, sweating sickness, T.B., TB, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhoid fever, undulant fever, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack
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