Usually means: Illness spread by pathogens, contagious.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. infectious disease: Collins English Dictionary
  2. infectious disease: Vocabulary.com
  3. infectious-disease, infectious disease: Wordnik
  4. infectious disease: Wiktionary
  5. infectious disease: Dictionary.com
  6. Infectious Disease, Infectious disease (athletes), Infectious disease (medical speciality), Infectious disease (medical specialty), Infectious disease (speciality), Infectious disease (specialty), Infectious disease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. infectious disease: Rhymezone
  8. infectious disease: FreeDictionary.org
  9. infectious disease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. infectious disease: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. infectious disease: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. infectious disease: Legal dictionary
  2. infectious disease: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infectious disease: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. infectious disease: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. infectious disease: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See infectious_diseases as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (infectious disease)

noun:  (medicine) An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.
noun:  (medicine) A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections.

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