Crossword clues for epidemic
epidemic
- Widespread disease
- Widespread illness
- Uncontrolled outbreak
- Contagious outbreak
- Serious flu outbreak, e.g
- Rapid spread of a disease
- Quickly caught by a lot
- Prevalent and rapidly spreading
- Marked by widespread growth
- Large-scale outbreak of disease
- Flu outbreak, e.g
- Ebola outbreak of 2014, e.g
- Disease affecting many people simultaneously
- Dim piece (anag)
- Bug problem?
- Black Death of 14th century Europe, for one
- ''The Andromeda Strain'' fear
- Rampant
- Not localized
- A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
- Many people are infected at the same time
- The flu, in 1918
- Excessively prevalent
- Widespread outbreak
- Medic sacked following record international outbreak
- Widespread outbreak of disease
- Wide outbreak of pied mice disrupted
- Rash of the skin, not initially red
- Prevalent notion in short by male in large-scale work
- Plague half contained in saga
- Plague is half the content of a poem
- Disease outbreak
- Disease affecting many in a population at the same time
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epidemic \Ep`i*dem"ic\, Epidemical \Ep`i*dem"ic*al\, a. [L. epidemus, Gr. ?, ?, among the people, epidemic; ? in + ? people: cf. F. ['e]pid['e]mique. Cf. Demagogue.]
(Med.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
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Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
It was the epidemical sin of the nation.
--Bp. Burnet.
Epidemic \Ep`i*dem"ic\, n. [Cf. Epidemy.]
(Med.) An epidemic disease.
Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "common to or affecting a whole people," originally and usually, though not etymologically, in reference to diseases, from French épidémique, from épidemié "an epidemic disease," from Medieval Latin epidemia, from Greek epidemia "a stay in a place; prevalence of an epidemic disease" (especially the plague), from epi "among, upon" (see epi-) + demos "people, district" (see demotic).
Wiktionary
a. Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread n. 1 A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. 2 (context epidemiology English) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
WordNet
n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
Wikipedia
An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time, usually two weeks or less. For example, in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic.
Epidemics of infectious disease are generally caused by several factors including a change in the ecology of the host population (e.g. increased stress or increase in the density of a vector species), a genetic change in the pathogen reservoir or the introduction of an emerging pathogen to a host population (by movement of pathogen or host). Generally, an epidemic occurs when host immunity to either an established pathogen or newly emerging novel pathogen is suddenly reduced below that found in the endemic equilibrium and the transmission threshold is exceeded.
An epidemic may be restricted to one location; however, if it spreads to other countries or continents and affects a substantial number of people, it may be termed a pandemic. The declaration of an epidemic usually requires a good understanding of a baseline rate of incidence; epidemics for certain diseases, such as influenza, are defined as reaching some defined increase in incidence above this baseline. A few cases of a very rare disease may be classified as an epidemic, while many cases of a common disease (such as the common cold) would not.
Epidemic is a Danish horror film of 1987 directed by Lars von Trier, the second installment of Trier's Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are The Element of Crime (1984) and Europa (1991).
Co-written by Trier and Niels Vørsel, the film focuses on the screenwriting process. Vørsel and Trier play themselves, coming up with a last-minute script for a producer. The story is inter-cut with scenes from the film they write, in which Trier plays a renegade doctor trying to cure a modern-day epidemic. The film marks the first in a series of collaborations between Trier and Udo Kier.
Epidemic was an American death/ Thrash metal band which was part of the Bay Area thrash scene.
An epidemic is a disease that spreads rapidly.
Epidemic may also refer to:
- Of The Epidemics, a medical book by Hippocrates
- Epidemic (film), a 1987 film
- Epidemic!, a 1961 novel by Frank G. Slaughter
- Epidemic Marketing, a short-lived dot-com company headquartered in Denver, Colorado
Epidemic is the third EP from rock band New Years Day. It is their first and only release on the label Grey Area Records.
Usage examples of "epidemic".
During last winter an epidemic of destruction broke out, the effect of which may be seen in the large amount added to the county cess to give compensation to the injured persons.
I remember Gaius Marius telling me there was an epidemic of marble-latrine-seat jokes after Ahenobarbus finished with the Domus Publica.
It is a remarkable fact that the epidemics of yellow fever in New Orleans have declined in virulence almost incredibly since the Banana began to be eaten there in considerable quantities.
This epidemic of rustic rabbis, with their simplistic philosophy and folksy adages, gives the Jewish religious establishment and the Roman occupiers a rare opportunity for cooperation, for the priests resent the devotion and enthusiasm that the uneducated Wad lavishes on these fanatics, and the Romans see them as foci for social unrest in a population already dangerously unstable.
The first cholera epidemic found her in the throes not only of famine but of civil disorder, controlled and suppressed by her highly mechanized army and by the still very powerful habits of orderliness and subordination in her people.
Buenos Aires epidemic of sightings of a saucerful of bald-headed dwarfs on a motorway.
By the end of the year nearly one million refugees had left Turkey for Greece bringing epidemics of typhus and malaria, trachoma and smallpox.
In Cuba the disease is epidemic during June, July, and August, and it appears with such certainty that the Revolutionists at the present time count more on the agency of yellow fever in the destruction of the unacclimated Spanish soldiers than on their own efforts.
Consequently there was practically nothing that we could not tackle between the three of us, either in bacteriology, pathology, sanitation or treatment of epidemic disease.
In the time period that people stopped eating eggs there was an epidemic of a disease called macular degeneration, which makes people lose their sight.
The Martialists consider that to this careful purification of their water they owe in great measure their exemption from the epidemic diseases which were formerly not infrequent.
It is reported that during the Brazilio-Paraguayan War an epidemic of measles swept off nearly a fifth of the Paraguayan army in three months.
Donohue was merely professionally interested in the epidemic and so was examining the microbiology involved.
An epidemic of missing foetuses is something that would surely cause a stir among gynaecologists, midwives, obstetrical nurses, especially in an age of heightened feminist awareness.
But this present, mysterious epidemic had a much higher fatality rate than the polio of old.