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1. contagious disease; communicable disease; transmissible disease; infectious disease; epidemicMedicine
Wikipedia definition
2. EpidemicIn epidemiology, an epidemic (επί - meaning "upon or above" and δήμος - meaning "people"), occurs when new cases of a certain disease, in a given human population, and during a given period, substantially exceed what is expected based on recent experience.
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