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  • 21contagious — late 14c., from O.Fr. contagieus (Mod.Fr. contagieux), from L.L. contagiosus, from L. contagio (see CONTACT (Cf. contact)) …

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  • 22contagious — *infectious, communicable, catching Analogous words: toxic, pestilential, pestilent, virulent, mephitic, mias mic (see POISONOUS) …

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  • 23contagious — [adj] communicable catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable; concept 314 Ant. noncommunicable …

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  • 24contagious aphthae — Foot and mouth disease • • • Main Entry: ↑aphtha …

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  • 25Contagious Disease Act — Die Contagious Diseases Acts (Gesetze über ansteckende Krankheiten) sind britische Parlamentserlasse des 19. Jahrhunderts zur Bekämpfung von Geschlechtskrankheiten. Anlass für die Verabschiedung dieser Erlasse war die hohe Anzahl von… …

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  • 26Contagious Disease Acts — Die Contagious Diseases Acts (Gesetze über ansteckende Krankheiten) sind britische Parlamentserlasse des 19. Jahrhunderts zur Bekämpfung von Geschlechtskrankheiten. Anlass für die Verabschiedung dieser Erlasse war die hohe Anzahl von… …

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  • 27Contagious Diseases Acts — Die Contagious Diseases Acts (Gesetze über ansteckende Krankheiten) sind britische Parlamentserlasse des 19. Jahrhunderts zur Bekämpfung von Geschlechtskrankheiten. Anlass für die Verabschiedung dieser Erlasse war die hohe Anzahl von… …

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  • 28Contagious shooting — A contagious shooting is a sociological phenomenon observed in military and police personnel in which one person firing on a target can induce others to begin shooting. Often the subsequent shooters will not know why they are firing.[1][2][3]… …

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  • 29Contagious Diseases Acts — The Contagious Diseases Acts were originally passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1864, with further alterations and editions made to it in 1866 and 1869. In 1862, a committee was established to inquire into venereal disease in the… …

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  • 30Contagious disease — A contagious disease is a subset category of infectious diseases (or communicable diseases), which are easily transmitted by physical contact (hence the name origin) with the person suffering the disease, or by their secretions or objects touched …

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