pandemic

  • 1pandemic — PANDÉMIC, Ă, pandemici, ce, adj. (Despre boli) (Care are caracter) de pandemie. – Din fr. pandémique. Trimis de valeriu, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DEX 98  pandémic adj. m., pl. pandémici; f. sg. pandémică, pl …

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  • 2Pandemic — Pan*dem ic, a. [L. pandemus, Gr. ?, ?; pa^s, pa^n, all + ? the people: cf. F. pand[ e]mique.] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. n. A pandemic disease. Harvey. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3pandemic — [pan dem′ik] adj. [< LL pandemus < Gr pandēmos < pan, all (see PAN ) + dēmos, the people: see DEMOCRACY] prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region: said of a disease n. a… …

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  • 4pandemic — index general, omnibus, predominant, prevailing (current), prevalent, rife Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …

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  • 5pandemic — (adj.) 1666, from Gk. pandemos pertaining to all people, from pan all + demos people (see DEMOTIC (Cf. demotic)). Modeled on EPIDEMIC (Cf. epidemic). The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adj …

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  • 6pandemic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or large part of the world. ► NOUN ▪ an outbreak of such a disease. ORIGIN from Greek pan all + d mos people …

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  • 7Pandemic — A pandemic (from Greek παν pan all + δήμος demos people) is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide.DefinitionAccording to the World Health… …

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  • 8Pandemic — An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world. By contrast: {{}}An epidemic affects more than the expected number of cases of disease occurring in a community or region during a …

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  • 9pandemic — A pandemic disease is one prevalent throughout a country, a continent, or the entire world. Pandemic suggests universal, widespread, and general : Fear of atomic warfare is pandemic. See also epidemic …

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  • 10pandemic — [[t]pænde̱mɪk[/t]] pandemics N COUNT A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area. [FORMAL] They feared a new cholera pandemic... One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide …

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