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infectious
adjective as in catching, spreading
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For most infectious, the amount is 100 or even 1,000 times that.
Although bats may have creeped us out for centuries, their links to emerging infectious diseases are much more recent.
In Malaysia and Bangladesh, a devastating infectious neurological disease emerged just a few years after Hendra.
The only existing study, printed in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in 1999, leaves scientists with the same questions.
Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.
The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself.
The infectious diseases in which leukocytosis is absent (p. 160) often cause a slight decrease of leukocytes.
(b) Acute infectious diseases, especially rheumatism and typhoid fever.
Predominance of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (pus-corpuscles) points to an acute infectious process (Fig. 117).
The usual cause of acute infectious conjunctivitis, especially in cities, seems to be the Koch-Weeks bacillus.
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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to infectious, such as: contagious, toxic, virulent, communicable, contaminating, and corrupting.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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