casual contact


noun
  1. the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease.

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How to use casual contact in a sentence

  • Additionally, humans cannot spread it to each other through casual contact.

  • Instead, the concerns reflect the fact that unlike measles or diphtheria or rubella, HPV is not spread by casual contact.

    HPV Vaccine's Tricky Ethics | Sharon Begley | September 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • He desired to eliminate Myra Bland and all that pertained to her from even casual contact with him.

    The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • Those with whom I come in casual contact appear to me now in a vague, diffused light like the atmosphere of some other world.

    Apologia Diffidentis | W. Compton Leith
  • Whenever he met her, even if it were only a brief, casual contact, for hours afterward he could not drive her out of his mind.

    Poor Man's Rock | Bertrand W. Sinclair