infectious disease
infectious disease noun: an illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.
Noun
infectious disease (plural infectious diseases)
- An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.
- Synonyms:
- infection
- A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections.
- Synonyms:
- ID, infectious diseases, infectiology, infectology
infectious disease meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
infectious disease in Hindi
- infectious disease
- संक्रामक रोग saṅkrāmak rog
infectious disease in Tamil
- disease
- தொற்றுநோய் toṟṟunōy
infectious disease in Bengali
- disease
- সংক্রামক রোগ śoṅkramok rōg
infectious disease in Malayalam
- infectious disease; transmissible disease
- പകർച്ചവ്യാധി pakaṟccavyādhi, സാംക്രമികരോഗം sāṅkramikarōgaṁ
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- infectious disease in Kannada
- ಅಂಟುರೋಗ, ಸಾಂಕ್ರಾಮಿಕ ರೋಗ
- infectious disease in Gujarati
- ચેપી રોગ cepī rog
- infectious disease in Sanskrit
- ईति īti
- infectious disease in Arabic
- مَرَض مُعْدٍ maraḍ muʕdin
- infectious disease in Malay
- penyakit berjangkit
- infectious disease in Indonesian
- penyakit menular, penyakit infeksi
- infectious disease in Thai
- โรคติดเชื้อ rôok-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa
- infectious disease in Vietnamese
- bệnh truyền nhiễm
- infectious disease in Myanmar
- ကူးစက်ရောဂါ ku:cak-rau:ga
Synonyms of infectious disease
Forms of infectious disease
| plural | infectious diseases |
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Questions about infectious disease
- What does infectious disease mean?
- Infectious disease means an illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.
- What is infectious disease in Hindi?
- Infectious disease in Hindi is संक्रामक रोग (saṅkrāmak rog). See Infectious disease meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is infectious disease?
- Infectious disease is a noun.
- What is the plural of infectious disease?
- The plural of infectious disease is infectious diseases.
Words near infectious disease in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: infectious disease (page history and authors); संक्रामक रोग (Hindi) (page history and authors); പകർച്ചവ്യാധി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); infectious disease (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ईति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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