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Can it go on spreading?
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contagion
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Word definitions for contagion in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French contagion , from Latin contagionem (nominative contagio ) "a touching, contact, contagion," related to contingere "touch closely" (see contact (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contagion \Con*ta"gion\ (k[o^]n*t[=a]"j[u^]n), n. [L. contagio: cf. F. contagion. See Contact .] (Med.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact. Note: The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A disease spread by contact 2 The spread or transmission of such a disease 3 The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease 4 (context finance English) A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Contagion is the second album by American deathcore band Oceano , released November 9, 2010 through Earache Records . A video for "Weaponized" was released on November 4.
Usage examples of contagion.
He left the room, which was full of thoughts of contagion and monstrosity and all kinds of panicked jumble, through the zigzag of a wall, and worked his way into the next compartment.
Landouzy proves to us that ever since the sixteenth century, in the districts of the Mediterranean, in Spain, in the Balearic Isles and throughout the kingdom of Naples, tuberculosis was held to be contagious, whilst the rest of Europe was ignorant of this contagion.
There was quiet talk that ecoterrorists might have mailed the deadly samples, or a Unabomber with his own private stash of contagion.
The smile on his face twisted when he noticed Lukien coming toward him, and soon the contagion spread through the others.
If the medical theorist insists on being consulted, and we see fit to indulge him, he cannot be allowed to assume that the alleged laws of contagion, deduced from observation in other diseases, shall be cited to disprove the alleged laws deduced from observation in this.
The Laws of Similarity, Contagion, and Holomorphism bend the laws of probability.
I am quite well, and have no symptoms of any complaint, but I shall not lower myself to convince you of my health, as your eyes would carry contagion as well as your wretched carcase.
I rode through more than one empty hamlet, and as many where the path was blocked by fallen trees and villagers standing there with scythes and shovels to guard themselves from any who might bring the contagion into their homes.
Correct application of the law of contagion allows thaumaturgical tools to keep the mystic links to their original manufacturer even when someone else uses them, while the law of similarity permits their attunement to any wizard because of his likeness to the mage who made them.
Of course the whole matter has been looked at in a new point of view since the microbe as a vehicle of contagion has been brought into light, and explained the mechanism of that which was plain enough as a fact to all who were not blind or who did not shut their eyes.
I prefer to attribute them to accident, or Providence, of which I can form a conception, rather than to a contagion of which I cannot form any clear idea, at least as to this particular malady.
A certain number of deaths is caused every year by the contagion of puerperal fever, communicated by the nurses and medical attendants.
And if, like contagion, they were not palpable to the senses, such a person might go on to affirm that no proof existed of there being any such thing as musket-balls.
The first thing to be done, as I thought when I wrote my Essay, was to throw out all discussions of the word contagion, and this I did effectually by the careful wording of my statement of the subject to be discussed.
Meigs take such pains to reason so extensively about the laws of contagion, which, on that supposition, have no more to do with this case than with the plague which destroyed the people after David had numbered them?