Definition of Contagion

  • (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
  • (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
  • (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Venom; poison.

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