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| (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over alarge area. |
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(World Health Organization) |
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| an agency of the United Nations, established in 1948 with headquarters in Geneva, responsible forcoordinating international health activities, aiding governments in improving health services, etc |
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| communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another:infectious diseases. |
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| an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicatesonly within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNAcore, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope. |
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| any of a large group of chemical substances, as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by variousmicroorganisms and fungi, having the capacity in dilute solutions to inhibit the growth of or to destroybacteria and other microorganisms, used chiefly in the treatment of infectious diseases. |
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| a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting fromthe effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance,toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment. |
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| a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, aspneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and toneurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or blood products thatenter the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles. |
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| a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter ofthe population. |
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1.
to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
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to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate.
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