English > infectious disease: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact. |
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| Narrower | AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome | A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles |
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| brucellosis, undulant fever, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever | infectious bacterial disease of human beings transmitted by contact with infected animals or infected meat or milk products |
| cholera, Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic cholera | An acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food |
| dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever | An infectious disease of the tropics transmitted by mosquitoes and characterized by rash and aching head and joints |
| dysentery | An infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea |
| epidemic disease | Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
| hepatitis | inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin |
| herpes | viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane |
| infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever, kissing disease | An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase / increase / increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream |
| leprosy, Hansen's disease | chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions |
| listeriosis, listeria meningitis | An infectious disease of animals and humans (especially newborn or immunosuppressed persons) caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes |
| meningitis | infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection |
| mumps, epidemic parotitis | An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands |
| paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever | Any of a variety of infectious intestinal diseases resembling typhoid fever |
| poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis | An acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord |
| ratbite fever | Either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse |
| relapsing fever, recurrent fever | marked by recurring high fever and transmitted by the bite of infected lice or ticks |
| rheumatic fever | A severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves |
| rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis | infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria |
| sweating sickness, miliary fever | epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality |
| tuberculosis, TB, T.B. | 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 / stages) |
| typhoid, typhoid fever, enteric fever | serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration |
| whooping cough, pertussis | A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane |
| yaws, frambesia, framboesia | An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages / stages |
| yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit | Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito |
| Broader | communicable disease | A disease that can be communicated from one person to another |
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| Spanish | enfermedad infecciosa |
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| Catalan | malaltia infecciosa |
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