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contagion /con·ta·gion/ (kon-ta´jun) 1. the communication of disease from one individual to another. 2. a contagious disease.
contagion [kəntā′jən] Etymology: L, contingere, to touch the transmission of an infection by direct contact, droplet spread, or contact with contaminated fomites, such as clothing, bedding, dishes, or other objects the infected person has used. contagion 1. the spread of disease from one animal to another. 2. a contagious disease. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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has launched Outbreak Extra Expense Coverage, which is designed to protect companies from a closure of their business premises due to a variety of contagions, including avian flu. These professions organized along transnational lines relatively early in the nineteenth century, and their conferences and journals were heavily preoccupied by the idea that urban disease, whether carried by miasmas, infections, or contagions, could be stopped by isolating different groups of people from one another, whether by quarantine, in sanatoria, or in separate residential zones of a city. Social Influence" will provide a focus for research into the psychology of social influence with articles on such topics as conformity, norms, social influence tactics such as norm of reciprocity, altercasting and scarcity, interpersonal influence, advertising and mass media effects, propaganda, compliance, social movements, resistance to influence and social contagions. |
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