CONTAGIOUS DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contagious disease mean? 

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

1. any disease easily transmitted by contact

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTAGIOUS DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disease easily transmitted by contact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

contagion; contagious disease

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

communicable disease (a disease that can be communicated from one person to another)

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

flu; grippe; influenza (an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease)

measles; morbilli; rubeola (an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children)

diphtheria (acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing)

scarlatina; scarlet fever (an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash)

pox (a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks)

trench mouth; Vincent's angina; Vincent's infection (an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane)

Cupid's disease; Cupid's itch; dose; sexually transmitted disease; social disease; STD; VD; venereal disease; venereal infection; Venus's curse (a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact)

 Context examples 

The virus that causes measles (a highly contagious disease marked by fever, cough, and raised red spots on the skin).

(Measles virus, NCI Dictionary)

A contagious disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans.

(Glanders, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)