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contagiousness

/kuhn-tey-juhs/US // kənˈteɪ dʒəs //UK // (kənˈteɪdʒəs) //

传染性,传播性,传染力,传染

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being transmitted by bodily contact with an infected person or object: contagious diseases.
    • : carrying or spreading a contagious disease.
    • : tending to spread from person to person: contagious laughter.

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Examples

  • The last several years have been terrible for measles, the highly contagious — and vaccine-preventable — childhood disease.

  • From surprise pregnancy announcements on Instagram to glam photo shoots starring their gorgeous baby bumps, these celebrity moms’ pregnancy glow was contagious in 2020.

  • What’s more, Woloshin said, the tests only tell you if you have the virus — not whether or when you are contagious.

  • An anti-chytrid microbe so acquired could be like a vaccine that’s contagious.

  • Its earliest origins, which probably date back to 16th-century China or possibly slightly later in India, involve the use of contagious fluids from smallpox victims to protect from future infection.

  • Mead most satisfactorily combats the opinions of the French physicians who maintained the non-contagiousness of the Plague.

  • In recent years the fact of its exhibiting a family tendency has been thought as much suggestive of contagiousness as of heredity.

  • The contagiousness of whooping cough continues about two months, or ceases before that time with the cessation of the cough.

  • Medical opinion in 1833 was decidedly adverse to the contagiousness of influenza.

  • Now that we know its contagiousness, however, it is comparatively easy to explain its occurrence in families.