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An epidemic disease.

plied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

In an epidemic manner.

Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever (Med.), a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is…

disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

siatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice- water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly…

The first stage of epidemic cholera.

A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.

To cease to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared.

c disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

preads gradually over its surface. It is usually regarded as contagious, and often occurs epidemically.

The influenza or epidemic catarrh. Dunglison.

amination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.