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noun any disease easily transmitted by contact
noun an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
noun the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
originFrom Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contāgiō (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingō (“touch closely”).
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