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Infectious Disease
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.
(2):
Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Infectious Disease'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/infectious-disease.html. 1828.