| has gloss | (noun) a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
infectious disease |
| lexicalization | eng: infectious disease |
| subclass of | (noun) a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
communicable disease |
| has subclass | (noun) a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
| has subclass | (noun) infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products; characterized by fever and headache
Mediterranean fever, Rock fever, undulant fever, Gibraltar fever, brucellosis, Malta fever |
| has subclass | (noun) an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
Indian cholera, Asiatic cholera, cholera, epidemic cholera |
| has subclass | (noun) an infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints
dengue, dandy fever, dengue fever, breakbone fever |
| has subclass | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea
dysentery |
| has subclass | (noun) any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
epidemic disease |
| has subclass | (noun) inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin
hepatitis |
| has subclass | (noun) viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane
herpes |
| has subclass | (noun) an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing
mono, infectious mononucleosis, glandular fever, kissing disease, mononucleosis |
| has subclass | (noun) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae
leprosy, Hansen's disease |
| has subclass | (noun) an infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes; in sheep and cattle the infection frequently involves the central nervous system and causes various neurological symptoms
listeriosis, listeria meningitis |
| has subclass | (noun) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea
meningitis |
| has subclass | (noun) an acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands
epidemic parotitis, mumps |
| has subclass | (noun) any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever
paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever |
| has subclass | (noun) an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord
infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, poliomyelitis, polio |
| has subclass | (noun) either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions
ratbite fever |
| has subclass | (noun) infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria
rickettsiosis, rickettsial disease |
| has subclass | (noun) marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks; characterized by episodes of high fever and chills and headache and muscle pain and nausea that recur every week or ten days for several months
recurrent fever, relapsing fever |
| has subclass | (noun) a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves
rheumatic fever |
| has subclass | (noun) epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
sweating sickness, miliary fever |
| has subclass | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
TB, T.B., tuberculosis |
| has subclass | (noun) serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water
typhoid, typhoid fever, enteric fever |
| has subclass | (noun) a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane
whooping cough, pertussis |
| has subclass | (noun) an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
frambesia, framboesia, yaws |
| has subclass | (noun) caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
black vomit, yellow fever, yellow jack |