infectious disease

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Noun

infectious disease (plural infectious diseases)

2. (medicine) An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.

   Synonyms: transmissible disease, communicable disease

4. (medicine) A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections.

   Synonyms: ID, infectious diseases, infectious disease medicine, infectious medicine, infectiology, infectology

Translations

disease

• Arabic: مَرَض مُعْدٍ m (maraḍ muʕdin)
• Bengali: সংক্রামক রোগ (bn) (śoṅkramok rōg)
• Burmese: ကူးစက်ရောဂါ (my) (ku:cak-rau:ga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳染病／传染病 (zh) (chuánrǎnbìng)

• Finnish: tarttuva tauti, tartuntatauti (fi)
• French: maladie infectieuse (fr)
• German: Infektionskrankheit (de)
• Gujarati: ચેપી રોગ (cepī rog)
• Indonesian: penyakit menular, penyakit infeksi
• Irish: galar gabhálach m, galar tógálach m
• Japanese: 感染症 (ja) (kansenshō), 感染性疾患 (kansenseishikkan), 伝染病 (ja) (densenbyō)
• Malay: penyakit berjangkit
• Maori: mate hōrapa
• Newar: संक्रमक ल्वे (saṃkramaka lwe)
• Swahili: ugonjwa wa kuambukiza
• Swedish: infektionssjukdom (sv) c
• Thai: โรคติดเชื้อ (rôok-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa)
• Vietnamese: bệnh truyền nhiễm

medical specialty

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳染病學／传染病学 (zh) (chuánrǎnbìngxué)

• Finnish: tartuntatautioppi, infektiologia
• French: infectiologie (fr) f
• Indonesian: penyakit infeksi
• Malay: penyakit berjangkit