Definition that contains idem
- edward son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
- plague any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- pest any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- pestilence any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- pandemic an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
- pandemic epidemic over a wide geographical area
- pestilent likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- epidemiologist a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases
- prevalence (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
- pesthole a breeding ground for epidemic disease