Pandemic (redirected from Pandemics)

pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik)

1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.

2. widely epidemic.

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pan·dem·ic (pn-dmk)

adj.

Epidemic over a wide geographic area.

n.

A pandemic disease.

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Pandemic

A widespread epidemic that affects whole countries or the entire world. There have been seven cholera pandemics since 1817.

Mentioned in: Cholera, Influenza, Plague

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pandemic (pan·deˑ·mik),

adj relating to the occurrence over a vast geographic region and impacting a large percentage of the population.

Pancreatitis.

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pandemic (pandem´ik),

adj describing an epidemic covering a widespread area such as a country or continent. It can describe a global epidemic.

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pandemic

a widespread epidemic, i.e the disease is clustered in time but not in space.