Synset

a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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infectious disease

semantic pointers

hypernym

communicable disease

hyponym

AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome brucellosis, undulant fever, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever cholera, Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic cholera dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever dysentery epidemic disease hepatitis herpes infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever, kissing disease leprosy, Hansen's disease listeriosis, listeria meningitis meningitis mumps, epidemic parotitis paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever polio, poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis ratbite fever rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis relapsing fever, recurrent fever rheumatic fever sweating sickness, miliary fever tuberculosis, TB, T.B. typhoid, typhoid fever, enteric fever whooping cough, pertussis yaws, frambesia, framboesia yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit