Definitions for infectious disease
in·fec·tious dis·ease

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. infectious diseasenoun

   a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

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1. infectious disease

   An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses. Hosts can fight infections using their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response. Specific medications used to treat infections include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiprotozoals, and antihelminthics. Infectious diseases resulted in 9.2 million deaths in 2013 (about 17% of all deaths). The branch of medicine that focuses on infections is referred to as infectious disease.

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1. infectious disease

   Infectious disease is a type of illness caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. These organisms invade the body's cells or tissues, resulting in harmful effects and symptoms. They can be transmitted directly or indirectly from person to person, or through bites from insects or animals, or by consuming contaminated food or water. Examples of infectious diseases include the flu, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and COVID-19. Treatment can involve medications specifically designed to fight the infectious agents and prevent their spread.

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1. Infectious disease

   Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism. In certain cases, infectious diseases may be asymptomatic for much or even all of their course in a given host. In the latter case, the disease may only be defined as a "disease" in hosts who secondarily become ill after contact with an asymptomatic carrier. An infection is not synonymous with an infectious disease, as some infections do not cause illness in a host. Infectious pathogens include some viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. These pathogens are the cause of disease epidemics, in the sense that without the pathogen, no infectious epidemic occurs. The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, while the infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted to other hosts. Transmission of pathogen can occur in various ways including physical contact, contaminated food, body fluids, objects, airborne inhalation, or through vector organisms.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of infectious disease in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of infectious disease in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of infectious disease in a Sentence

1. Brett Schaefer:

   Thus, it is hardly surprising that International Regulatory Affairs failed to be transparent and truthful in reporting details on COVID-19 to WHO and the international community. In fact, this is not the first time this has happened, in 2003, China concealed and denied an infectious disease outbreak later called SARS for months.

2. Lawrence Corey:

   I don't think in all of history there's ever been an infectious disease that infected more people in such a short time.

3. Bayard Roberts:

   Traditionally the focus has been on communicable (infectious) disease and maternal and child care.

4. Steven Thrasher:

   But the way that you get collective health around infectious disease is that you have to make medication free at the point of service to as many people as possible, the second it starts getting paid for, the people who can pay for it get more protection, and for those who can't, the virus pulls amongst them, and that's kind of a major dynamic happening right now between the two camps, of which I think Dr. Wen is a prime example.

5. Amany Qaddour:

   We talk about the ability to stay home and be on lockdown, and we see people rushing to stores right now. That is not something you have in Syria -- you are not able to prepare for what appears to be an apocalypse and go get a month's worth of food, you're displaced, you are out in the open in a tent that might not even have a door and you can not protect yourself from these threats... [ including ] the major threat of infectious disease.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=infectious disease
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_Disease
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=infectious disease