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Definition of Epidemic

1. Noun. A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.

2. Adjective. (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously. "An epidemic outbreak of influenza"

Definition of Epidemic

1. a. Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

2. n. An epidemic disease.

Definition of Epidemic

1. a rapid spread of a disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Epidemic

1. Occurring suddenly in numbers clearly in excess of normal expectancy, said especially of infectious diseases but applied also to any disease, injury or other health related event occurring in such outbreaks. Compare: endemic, sporadic. Origin: Gr. Epidemios = prevalent (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epidemic

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