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The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

See Bridesmaid, Bridesman.

Means of forming a decision. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

An epidemic disease.

ied 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.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.

A person skilled in epidemiology.

That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

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

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

nd 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 so…

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

atic 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 p…

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.