Meaning of అంటువ్యాధి in English
- The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
- That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
- The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
- Venom; poison.
- One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
- Affected by contagion.
- Quality of being contagious.
- Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
- Alt. of Epidemical
- An epidemic disease.
- Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
- Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
- Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
- In an epidemic manner.
- Alt. of Epidictical
- Serving to explain; demonstrative.
- In an infectious manner.
- The quality of being infectious.
- Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
- Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
- Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
- A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
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