WordNet
communicable disease
n. a disease that can be communicated from one person to another
Usage examples of "communicable disease".
In the early eighties, a lethal new communicable disease arrived in our social consciousness: AIDS.
In the event of an outbreak of a communicable disease, the use of a serum prepared from the blood of a recovered victim of the same disease has proved efficacious.
Simmons, chief of the technology branch of the Communicable Disease Center of the U.
They pretended to suffer from the communicable disease without having reached the crazy stage so far.