CONTAGION

n. Ko2n-taj'yusn. Lat., contages, contagio, contagium (from contingere, to touch). Fr., contage, c. Ger., Ansteckung (1st def.), Ansteckung toff (2d def.). It., con tag i one. Sp., contagio. 1. The communication of disease from one individual to another by means of direct or mediate contact or, as used by some writers (in the sense of infection), by effluvia, etc. 2. The material cause or virus of a contagious disease. [A, 301, 322.1 C. miasm at i que (Fr.). C. propagated by a miasm. [L, 41.] C. morte (Fr.). See Mediate c. C. nerve use (Fr.), C. nevrosique (Fr.). The occurrence or causation in neurotic persons of symptoms like those manifested by other persons with whom they are a ociated; neurotic mimicry. [A, 385; L, 41.] C. paras it a ire (Fr.). C. by means of a living organism. [L, 41.1 C. purulent.e (Fr.). C. by contact with pus (as in gonorrhoea). [L, 41.] C. virulente (Fr.). C. by the means of a virus. [L, 41.1 C. vive (Fr.). See Immediate c. and CONTAGIUM vivum. Direct c. Contact of the living body with any specific morbid material capable of development within or upon that body, and by which disease, similar to that of which the materies morbi formed a part, is reproduced, [a, 25.] Immediate c. Fr., c. immediate, c. vive. Ger., unmittelbare Anateckung. It., con tag i one immediata. Sp., contagio directo. C. due to actual contact with an affected person. [L, 41.] Mediate c. Fr., c. mediate, c. morte. Ger., mittelbare Ansteckung. It., con tag i one mediata. Sp., contagio indirecto. The acquisition of a contagious disease from an intermediary person rather than directly from one affected with it. [J.] [s. 384]