epidemic | | |
n. (event) | 1. epidemic | a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time. |
| ~ outbreak, irruption, eruption | a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition).; "the outbreak of hostilities" |
| ~ pandemic | an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world. |
adj. | 2. epidemic | (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" |
| ~ medical specialty, medicine | the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques. |
| ~ epiphytotic | (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area.; "an epiphytotic blight of potatoes"; "epiphytotic conditions associated with a single-plant agriculture" |
| ~ epizootic | (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region.; "an epizootic disease" |
| ~ pandemic | epidemic over a wide geographical area.; "a pandemic outbreak of malaria" |
| ~ pestilential, plaguey, pestiferous, pestilent | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"; "plaguey fevers" |
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