Contagious disease and Fever

Contagious disease

Contagious disease noun - Any disease easily transmitted by contact.

Fever and contagious disease are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fever" instead a noun phrase "Contagious disease".

Fever

Fever noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.
Usage example: before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that

Contagious disease and fever are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contagious disease" instead a noun "Fever".

Nearby Words: feverish, feverishly, fevered, feverous, fevering

Both terms in one sentence

  • Film / La Habanera Meanwhile, the island has been hit with another outbreak of "Puerto Rico fever", an extremely deadly contagious disease.
  • In Medium episode "You Give Me Fever", the guy responsible for causing another guy to kill himself after infecting him with a deadly contagious disease.
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