CONTAGIUM
\kəntˈe͡ɪd͡ʒəm], \kəntˈeɪdʒəm], \k_ə_n_t_ˈeɪ_dʒ_ə_m]\
Definitions of CONTAGIUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Germs causing propagation of a disease.
By William R. Warner
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In med. that which carries the infectious element in diseases from one person to another. "Supposing the contagium of every communicable disease to consist of minute organized particles susceptible of undergoing almost unlimited multiplication when introduced into a suitable medium, etc." -Academy.
By Daniel Lyons
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[Latin] The virus or morbid principle which effects contagion, or the transfer of a disease from one person to another.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe