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nouna widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
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"an epidemic outbreak of influenza"adjective(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
Definition that contains epidemic
- pandemic epidemic over a wide geographical area
- sweating sickness epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
- miliary fever epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality