Definition of Contagions

1. Noun. (plural of contagion) ¹

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Definition of Contagions

1. contagion [n] - See also: contagion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contagions

contactinhibin
contactins
contaction
contactiveness
contactless
contactor
contactors
contacts
contactual
contadino
contagia
contagion
contagioned
contagionist
contagionists
contagions (current term)
contagious
contagious abortion
contagious agalactia
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
contagious bovine pyelonephritis
contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
contagious disease
contagious distribution
contagious ecthyma
contagious ecthyma virus of sheep
contagious pustular dermatitis
contagious pustular stomatitis virus
contagiously
contagiousness

Literary usage of Contagions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Syphilis and marriage: Lectures Delivered at the St. Louis Hospital, Paris by Alfred Fournier (1882)
"In the enormous majority of cases, the syphilitic contagions transmitted in ... These contagions are almost invariably derived from, secondary accidents of ..."

2. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair, John White Webster (1841)
"ON POISONS, contagions, AND MIASMS. A GREAT many chemical compounds, some derived from inorganic nature, and others formed in animals and plants, ..."

3. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1843)
"ON POISONS, contagions, AND MIASMS. A GREAT many chemical compounds, some derived from inorganic nature, and others formed in animals and plants, ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1841)
"and the volatile contagions, which are propagated not only by contact, but by the atmosphere, and, therefore, may prevail as extensive epidemic distempers, ..."

5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1843)
"contagions and miasms, leads on to the chemistry of physiology ; a subject more fully treated in that second work of Professor Liebig's, already adverted to ..."

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