Medical Dictionary

contagious disease

noun

Medical Definition of CONTAGIOUS DISEASE

:  an infectious disease communicable by contact with one who has it, with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with an object touched by such a patient or by bodily discharges—compare communicable disease

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