| NOUN | state | epidemic disease | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
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| Meaning | Any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people. | |
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| Narrower | epidemic pleurodynia, epidemic myalgia, myosis, diaphragmatic pleurisy, Bornholm disease | An acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest) |
| plague, pestilence, pest, pestis | A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | |
| plague, pestilence, pest | Any epidemic disease with a high death rate | |
| Broader | infectious disease | A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact |
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