contagion
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6.8
- noun
- /kənˈteɪdʒən/
- Specialized
:
contagio
- The medical team worked tirelessly to prevent the contagion from spreading to healthy patients.
- contagion spreads
- fear of contagion
- contagion and disease
And we said this the the wave of contagion is rolling through Europe now.
- And we said this the the wave of contagion is rolling through Europe now.
- We're all learning to flatten the curve, track traces, avoid contagion, limit the spread.
- The answer is we're working on some kind of solution to prevent contagion.
- I think this is, you know, what we have is something with a very low mortality rate and high contagion.
- You can think about that as as a sort of disease that follows contagion models that are described by epidemiologists in the medical school.
- Our way of handling contagion has been clumsy at best.
Examples
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One issue was the disease itself: what is the mechanism of contagion for "viral fever"?
Academic text (1997) -
Our way of handling contagion has been clumsy at best.
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I want them away from the contagion ward.
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Our world leading NHS vaccination roll out has ended the severe contagion of the pandemic.
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Test her for signs of contagion and quarantine this place.
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There is no contagion that spreads like that one.
Academic text (2007) -
There's no sign of contagion.
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New model of disease contagion ranks U.S. airports in terms of their spreading influence.
Blog text (24) -
We're all learning to flatten the curve, track traces, avoid contagion, limit the spread.
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Such images are horrifying enough, but there's an even more horrific scenario if the contagion spreads beyond the region, potentially infecting tens... if not hundreds of thousands.
Synonyms
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3.1
Harmful germs enter the body and make you sick
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4.5
The passing of a disease from one person or animal to another
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3.6
A disease that spreads between people or animals, often by touch
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3.2
A disease that easily spreads between people
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3.5
A disease that spreads quickly and affects many people in one area
Antonyms
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
contagion = contag + ion
'Contagion' is not transparently built from recognizable English morphemes or base words, so its meaning is not obvious to learners.
Etymology
Contagion comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and tangere 'to touch', the same root as contact; it originally meant things passed by touch, which is why today it means a disease that spreads easily.