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communicable disease

  1. Any disease transmitted from one person or animal to another; also called contagious disease . Sometimes quarantine is required to prevent the spread of disease.


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Consequently, allowing for possible communicable disease, Chischa was in its aboriginal state when Estudillo saw it.

Again, it may be a secondary or residual affection with many, but a communicable disease to others.

Yellow fever is a specific, infectious, and communicable disease of one febrile paroxysm.

There has long been reason for believing that tuberculosis is a communicable disease.

These poisons or toxins interfere with the bodily functions, and thus cause what we know as communicable disease.

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