Noun:

தொத்து நோய்,

epidemic's Usage Examples:

It was violently opposed as "subversive of the last remains of English liberty" and as likely to result in "some public misfortune or an epidemical distemper.

racial segregation was a reality in Virginia in the epidemic years.

The difference in level between the city and the lake being less than six feet and the lake having no natural outlet, typhus fever became a common epidemic in its lower and poorer sections.

phytoplankton blooms in the sea: evidence for a global epidemic.

Poliomyelitis virus of low virulence in patients with epidemic " summer grippe or sore throat ".

, are the special subject of naval and military surgery; while under the head of military hygiene we may include the general subject of ambulances, the sanitary arrangements of camps, and the various forms of epidemic camp sickness.

Yellow fever epidemics are common on the Campeche coast, and sometimes appear at Progreso and Merida.

Thus he came to the conclusion that the malady had been inherent in many successive generations of the silkworm, and that the epidemic condition was only an exaggeration of a normal state brought about by the method of cultivation and production of graine pursued.

His mind, excitable by nature, very imperfectly disciplined by education, and exposed to the enthusiasm which was then epidemic in England, began to be fearfully disordered.

Moreover, as this complication was a marked feature in certain epidemics of plague in India, the hypothesis has been framed by Hirsch that a special variety of plague, pestis indica, still found in India, is that which overran the world in the 14th century.

Numerous wild hypotheses as to changes in the constitution of the host-plant, leading to supposed vulnerability previously non-existent, would probably never have seen the light had the full significance of the truth been grasped that an epidemic results when the external laciors favor a parasite somewhat more than they do the host.

judicatory an epidemic occurring right under the nose of church middle judicatories and no one seems to notice.

Synonyms:

pestilential, pandemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, pestilent, plaguey, pestiferous,

Antonyms:

antiseptic, good, agreeable, ecdemic, endemic,