Synonyms for infectious disease
in·fec·tious dis·ease

Princeton's WordNet

1. infectious diseasenoun

   a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

Matched Categories

1. • Communicable Disease

How to pronounce infectious disease?

How to say infectious disease in sign language?

How to use infectious disease in a sentence?

1. Judith Hayes:

   They didn't find any microbial growth on the lunar samples, and they didn't have any microorganisms that they at least initially attributed to any extraterrestrial source or lunar source, and the crew didn't have any signs of an infectious disease, and all the rodents survived the exams, so everybody did well.

2. Jeremy Farrar:

   Drug resistance has to be put into the same category as the emerging infectious diseases. In my view, it will be the most important emerging infectious disease in the 21st century.

3. Peter Openshaw:

   We currently rank first amongst the G7 nations for our research in immunity and infectious disease and are now starting to reap the benefits of our efforts, with new treatments for previously incurable diseases emerging after decades of investment and collaboration in immunological research.

4. Wuhan Mayor Zhou Xianwang:

   We understand that the public is unsatisfied with our information disclosure. On one hand, we failed to disclose relevant information in a timely manner ; on the other, we did not make sufficient use of valid information to improve our work, as for the late disclosure, I hope the public can understand that it's an infectious disease, and relevant information should be released according to the law. As a local government, we can only disclose information after being authorized.

5. Tom Kupfer:

   Those images look to me like they would be perceived as cues to infectious disease or parasites, i wouldn't be surprised if this is actually a disorder based on disgust and disease avoidance.