| epidemic |
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
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| epidemic encephalitis |
sleeping sickness: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
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| epidemic pleurodynia |
an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
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| epidemiologist |
a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases
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| epidemiology |
the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease
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