German Meaning of infectious disease

Infektionskrankheit

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Definitions and Meaning of infectious disease in English

Wordnet

infectious disease (n)

a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

Webster

infectious disease ()

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.

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Infektionskrankheit

a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contactAny disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a

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infectious agent => infektiöser Erreger, infectious => ansteckend, infection => Infektion, infecting => ansteckend, infectible => infektiös,