Medical Dictionary

infectious disease

noun

Medical Definition of INFECTIOUS DISEASE

:  a disease caused by the entrance into the body of organisms (as bacteria, protozoans, fungi, or viruses) which grow and multiply there—see communicable disease, contagious disease

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