'Infectious disease' definitions:
Definition of 'infectious disease'
(from WordNet)
noun
A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Definition of 'Infectious disease'
From: GCIDE
- Infectious disease \In*fec"tious dis*ease"\ (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'infectious disease'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hereditary disease,
- iatrogenic disease,
- illness,
- indisposition,
- infirmity,
- malady,
- malaise,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- plant disease,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- worm disease