Definition of Contagia

1. contagium [n] - See also: contagium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contagia

contacted
contactee
contactees
contactin
contacting
contactinhibin
contactins
contaction
contactiveness
contactless
contactor
contactors
contacts
contactual
contadino
contagia (current term)
contagion
contagioned
contagionist
contagionists
contagions
contagious
contagious abortion
contagious agalactia
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
contagious bovine pyelonephritis
contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
contagious disease
contagious distribution
contagious ecthyma

Literary usage of Contagia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hygiene and Public Health by Louis Coltman Parkes, Henry Richard Kenwood (1913)
"The germ theory assumes that the contagia are microscopic living particles, ... The view that the particles of contagia are really minute organisms is ..."

2. A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1880)
"They have corrected it, by proving that the bacteria (unlike true contagia) do not multiply within the organism, and that their injurious influence over the ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"On the Antiseptic Treatment of contagia as Illustrative of the Germ Theory of Disease. By WILLIAM HOPE, VC On the Comparison of ..."

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