Medical term:
pandemic
pandemic
[pan-dem´ik]1. a widespread epidemic of a disease.
2. widely epidemic.
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pan·dem·ic
(pan-dem'ik),Denoting a disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, continent, global; extensively epidemic.
[pan- + G. dēmos, the people]
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pandemic
(păn-dĕm′ĭk)adj.
1. Widespread; general.
2. Medicine Epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population: pandemic influenza.
n.
A pandemic disease.
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pan·dem·ic
(pan-dem'ik)Denoting a disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, continent; extensively epidemic.
[pan- + G. dēmos, the people]
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pandemic
A world-wide EPIDEMIC.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
pandemic
(of a disease such as malaria) occurring over a wide geographical area.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
Pandemic
A widespread epidemic that affects whole countries or the entire world. There have been seven cholera pandemics since 1817.
Mentioned in: Cholera, Influenza, Plague
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pan·dem·ic
(pan-dem'ik)Denoting a disease affecting or attacking the population of an extensive region, country, continent; extensively epidemic.
[pan- + G. dēmos, the people]
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pan·de·mic·i·ty
(pan'dĕ-mis'i-tē),The state or condition of being pandemic.
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