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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("infectious 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 "infectious disease"):
black vomit; yellow fever; yellow jack (caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito)
frambesia; framboesia; yaws (an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions)
pertussis; whooping cough (a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane)
enteric fever; typhoid; typhoid fever (serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water)
T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages))
miliary fever; sweating sickness (epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality)
rheumatic fever (a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves)
recurrent fever; relapsing fever (marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months)
rickettsial disease; rickettsiosis (infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria)
ratbite fever (either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions)
acute anterior poliomyelitis; infantile paralysis; polio; poliomyelitis (an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord)
paratyphoid; paratyphoid fever (any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever)
epidemic parotitis; mumps (an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands)
meningitis (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)
listeria meningitis; listeriosis (an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms)
Hansen's disease; leprosy (chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae)
glandular fever; infectious mononucleosis; kissing disease; mono; mononucleosis (an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing)
herpes (viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane)
hepatitis (inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin)
epidemic disease (any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people)
dysentery (an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea)
breakbone fever; dandy fever; dengue; dengue fever (an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints)
Asiatic cholera; cholera; epidemic cholera; Indian cholera (an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food)
brucellosis; Gibraltar fever; Malta fever; Mediterranean fever; Rock fever; undulant fever (infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache)
acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS (a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles)
Context examples:
Liposomes, several of which are widely used to treat infectious diseases and cancer, were the first type of nanoparticle to be used to create therapeutic agents with novel characteristics.
(Liposome, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Infectious diseases that start in one part of the world can quickly reach another.
(International Health, NIH)
The study of infectious diseases in the laboratory
(Infectious Diseases Research, NCI Thesaurus)
It is done for the evaluation of hematopoietic disorders and for the evaluation of infectious diseases and cytogenetic studies.
(Bone marrow aspiration, NCI Thesaurus)
Chemokine receptors, members of the G-protein coupled receptor family, are predominantly expressed on the surface of leukocytes and play an important role in inflammation, infectious diseases, and cancer.
(Chemokine Receptor Antagonist, NCI Thesaurus)
Even when taking in fewer calories and nutrients, humans and other mammals usually remain protected against infectious diseases they have already encountered.
(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)
They transmit several serious diseases including malaria, one of the most common infectious diseases in the world.
(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)
The loss of beneficial bacteria increases the risk of certain life-threatening infectious diseases and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
(Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients, National Institutes of Health)
EXAMPLE(S): routine requirement, drug reaction, infectious disease reporting requirement, on patient request
(Activity Reason Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver.
(Allergy Drug Treats Hepatitis C in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
