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immediate contagion(medicine)
Contagion(money)
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contagion(dictionary)
mediate contagion(medicine)
psychic contagion(medicine)

contagion (iou)



contagion noun. LME.
[Latin contagio(n-), formed as CON- + base of tangere to touch: see -ION. Cf. French contagion.]
A contagious disease; a plague, a pestilence. fig. a contagious moral disease, corruption. LME.
M. L. King Hate is a contagion;..it grows and spreads as a disease.
Harmful contagious influence or quality (chiefly fig.). LME.
E. P. Thompson The tendency of the Methodists..to keep their members apart from the contagion of the unconverted.
The communication of disease from body to body by direct or indirect contact. E17.
Medical History. A substance or agent by which a contagious disease is transmitted. E17.
b. A poison that infects the blood. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
In a good or neutral sense: the infectious quality or influence of an emotion, action, etc. M17.
J. A. Froude The contagion of example.
contagionist noun (obsolete exc. Hist.) a believer in the contagiousness of a particular disease or particular diseases E19.