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noncommunicable

a. (context of a disease English) That cannot be passed on to others; not infectious alt. (context of a disease English) That cannot be passed on to others; not infectious

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noncommunicable

adj. (of disease) not capable of being passed on [syn: noncontagious, nontransmissible]

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Catherine Wallenstein lay dead, not struck down by some primitive paroxysm of rage as it appeared, rather felled by the terminal onslaught of a massive and incurable disorder that had been ravaging him for years with a fever resembling paratyphoid, noncommunicable among humans, a condition visited upon him during the onset of puberty when he had first contracted a rare and largely extinct mountain strain of Albanian hoof and mouth disease.