Medical Dictionary
quarantine flag
noun
Medical Definition of QUARANTINE FLAG
: a yellow flag hoisted by all ships to request pratique on entering a harbor, by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined—called also yellow flag, yellow jack
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