English dictionary



Hint: Asterisk (*) is a wildcard. Asterisk substitutes zero or more characters.

English noun: infectious disease

1. infectious disease (state) a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact


Broader (hypernym)communicable disease


Narrower (hyponym)acquired immune deficiency syndrome, acute anterior poliomyelitis, AIDS, Asiatic cholera, black vomit, breakbone fever, brucellosis, cholera, dandy fever, dengue, dengue fever, dysentery, enteric fever, epidemic cholera, epidemic disease, epidemic parotitis, frambesia, framboesia, Gibraltar fever, glandular fever, Hansen's disease, hepatitis, herpes, Indian cholera, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, leprosy, listeria meningitis, listeriosis, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, meningitis, miliary fever, mono, mononucleosis, mumps, paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever, pertussis, polio, poliomyelitis, ratbite fever, recurrent fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis, Rock fever, sweating sickness, T.B., TB, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhoid fever, undulant fever, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack









Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
Web design: Orcapia v/Per Bang. English edition: .
2024 onlineordbog.dk