Contagium
[kәn'teidʒiәm]
Definition
(n.) Contagion; contagious matter.
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Examples
- Henle, a German physiologist, as early as 1840, maintained the doctrine of _contagium vivum_, or contagion by the transmission of living germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checker: Walter