COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communicable disease mean? 

• COMMUNICABLE DISEASE (noun)
  The noun COMMUNICABLE DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a disease that can be communicated from one person to another

  Familiarity information: COMMUNICABLE DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICABLE DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease that can be communicated from one person to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("communicable disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicable disease"):

contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

cold; common cold (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs))

 Context examples 

He will generally not render primary health care, except for specific disease entities such as selected communicable diseases.

(Community Physician, NCI Thesaurus)

Kidney disease is a key contributor to the global non-communicable diseases (NCDs) burden both as a cause and consequence of other major NCDs — hypertension, stroke and cardio-vascular disease.

(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)