. (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. (b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
[とどけいででんせんびょう, todokeidedensenbyou](n) infectious disease which by law a physician must report to the authorities within 24 hours of diagnosis[Add to Longdo]