contagion

The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary · 1913 · p. 7
(kon-ta’jun) (L. conta’gio contact, infection]. 1. The communication of disease by mediate or immediate contact or by effluvia. See infection. 2. A contagious disease. 3. A contagium. direct c., immediate c., contagion from direct contact with a sick person. mediate c., contagion conveyed by a person or object from the sick to the well. psychic c., contagion of a nervous disorder through mental influence, as of imitation.
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