Word Finder - contagious

definition

(of a disease) Easily transmitted to others.

example

The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!

synonyms

• catching
• infectious

definition

Easily passed on to others.

example

Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.

synonyms

• infectious

definition

(of a person) Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.

example

They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.

He flashed one of his contagious smiles.

The contagious disease will spread quickly in this environment.

She laughed, a contagious sound, and he saw her effect even on Darian, who had relaxed and sat in a chair nearby.

This disease is more accidental than contagious and rarely takes very dangerous proportions.

Please do not drink from my cup if you are still contagious.

If your child has a contagious illness, it would be best to keep them at home.

It is contagious and would be even in a uniformly wealthy world.

I'm starting to feel ill, but I don't think it's anything contagious.

Dana's optimism and great attitude is contagious to the people around her.

If you yawn around your friends, you will quickly notice that it was contagious!

When they saw the chain reaction of helping others out, they realized that kindness is contagious.

The positive energy around the four men was contagious, and she found herself drawing it in.

But these books, however influential, had no public authority, and when the yoke of oppression was lightened but a little their enthusiasm lost much of its contagious power.

Your good mood will be highly contagious, others will respond.

Besides the general hospital, a female hospital in connexion with the Dufferin Fund has recently been built, and there are hospitals for contagious diseases and for lepers in the suburbs.

It should go away on its own and is contagious before the rash appears.

Flacherie is an intestinal disease of the cholera species and therefore contagious.

Howie's unexpected enthusiasm was contagious, to all but Quinn.

Well cholera is extremely contagious, hence the quarantine.

The Board of Agriculture has the power to close the ports of the United Kingdom against live animals from any country in which contagious disease is known to exist.

In it " the expression ` disease' means cattle plague (that is to say, rinderpest, or the disease commonly called cattle plague), contagious pleuropneumonia of cattle (in this act called pleuro-pneumonia), foot-and-mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep-scab, or swine fever (that is to say, the disease known as typhoid fever of swine, soldier purples, red disease, hog cholera or swine plague)."

What could it be and would it be contagious?

When we consider that tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, tetanus, typhoid fever, anthrax, malaria and a host of other contagious diseases have each been proved to be of parasitical origin, an idea may be conve y ed of the range of the subject.

One of the most remarkable practical outcomes of germ-pathology, however, has been the production of the immunized sera now employed so extensively in the treatment of diphtheria and other contagious diseases.

But, as Robertson Smith observes, "holiness is contagious, just as uncleanness is"; and common things and persons may become taboo, that is, so holy as to be dangerous and useless for daily life through the mere infection of holiness.

A disease of cattle in Nova Scotia, known as the Pictou cattle disease, long treated as contagious, has now been demonstrated by the veterinary officers of the department to be due to the ingestion of a weed, the ragwort, Senecio Jacobea.

The disease is peculiarly contagious and infectious, owing to the development of the fungus through the skin, whence spores are freed, which, coming in contact with healthy caterpillars, fasten on them and germinate inwards, giving off corpuscles within the body of the insect.

The Commissioners of Supply, originally appointed to apportion and collect the national revenue and afterwards entrusted with the regulation of the land tax, the control of the county police, the raising of the militia, and the levying of rates for county expenditure, were practically superseded by the county councils, which are also the local authority under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) and the Public Health Acts in all parishes (burghs and police burghs excepted), perform the administrative duties formerly entrusted to the justices of the peace, and may also enforce the Rivers Pollution Act each within its own jurisdiction.

Septicaemia, tuberculosis, glanders, fowl-cholera, relapsing fever, and other diseases are now brought definitely within the range of biology, and it is clear that all contagious and infectious diseases are due to the action of bacteria or, in a few cases, to fungi, or to protozoa or other animals.

Bubonic plague, of a fatal and contagious nature, first broke out in Bombay City in September 1896, and, despite all the efforts of the government, quickly spread to the surrounding country.

Dana'soptimism and great attitude is contagious to the people around her.

Distemper in cats is highly contagious and most often fatal.

They are also highly contagious through kissing or other close contact.

From the description given it was undoubtedly foul brood, and the bee-keepers of the island became convinced, after bitter experience, that it was extremely contagious.

Charles inched away, as if pregnancy was contagious, and Yully reached out to touch Sofi's forehead.

Contrary to popular belief, the EBV is not highly contagious.

Another up tempo tune, bolstered by a thumping back beat and simple yet contagious melody.

Many develop contagious diseases, and indiscriminate breeding could mean that many animals have congenital and behavioral problems.

I was just playing this soft blues which is very contagious, catchy.

Get out there, be a part of life; we're not contagious, you know!

They do not dare to be free lest the spirit of liberty become contagious.

Kirkus Dawkins's enthusiasm for the diversity of life on this planet should prove contagious.

It is only removed upon the curing of a victim, therefore dead victims are still likely to remain contagious in some way.

These trophies excited healthy rivalry in Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, and the enthusiasm as well as the skill with which the game was conducted in Scotland at length proved contagious.

Of the powers vested in the county authority under the Highway Act 1878, the most important are those relating to main roads, which are specially noticed hereafter; (ix.) the tables of fees to be taken by and the costs to be allowed to any inspector, analyst or person holding any office in the county other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices; (x.) the appointment, removal and determination of salaries of the county treasurer, the county surveyor, the public analysts, any officer under the Explosives Act 1875, and any officers whose remuneration is paid out of the county rate, other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices; (xi.) the salary of any coroner whose salary is payable out of the county rate, the fees, allowances and disbursements allowed to be paid by any such coroner, and the division of the county into coroners' districts and the assignments of such districts; (xii.) the division of the county into polling districts for the purposes of parliamentary elections, the appointment of the places of election, the places of holding courts for the revision of the lists of voters, and the costs of, and other matters to be done for the registration of parliamentary voters; (xiii.) the execution as local authority of the acts relating to contagious diseases of animals, to destructive insects, to fish conservancy, to wild birds, to weights and measures, and to gas meters, and of the Local Stamp Act i 869; (xiv.) any matters arising under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886.

Among the powers and duties of quarter sessions transferred to county councils were those arising under the acts relating Diseases of to contagious diseases of animals.

A person infected with the rubella virus is contagious for about seven days before any symptoms appear and continues to be able to spread the disease for about four days after the appearance of symptoms.

Scabies-A contagious parasitic skin disease caused by a tiny mite and characterized by intense itching.

Most types of meningitis are contagious.

Each year about 2,600 people get this highly contagious disease.