Meaning | (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously. |
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Example | "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" |
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Category | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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Narrower | epiphytotic | (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area |
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epizootic | (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region |
pandemic | epidemic over a wide geographical area |
pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
Opposite | ecdemic | Of or relating to a disease that originates outside the locality in which it occurs |
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endemic, endemical | Of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to ... / to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality |
Spanish | epidémico |
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Nouns | epidemic | a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease |
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