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Definition of Pandemic

1. Noun. An epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world.

2. Adjective. Epidemic over a wide geographical area. "A pandemic outbreak of malaria"

3. Adjective. Existing everywhere. "Pandemic fear of nuclear war"

Definition of Pandemic

1. a. Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

Definition of Pandemic

1. Adjective. Widespread; general. ¹

2. Adjective. (medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population. ¹

3. Noun. A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pandemic

1. a widespread disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pandemic

1. An epidemic that affects awide geographic area. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandemic

pandarous pandars pandas pandean pipe pandebono pandect pandects pandeiro pandeiros pandeistic

pandeistical pandeistically pandemain pandemia pandemias pandemic (current term) pandemically pandemicity pandemics pandemonia

pandemonism pandemonistic pandemonium pandemoniums pandenominational panderage pandered panderer panderers

Literary usage of Pandemic

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

1. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by August Hirsch (1883)
"In truly pandemic form, we meet with authentic influenzas in the years 1510, 1557, 1580, 1593, 1732-33, 1767, 1781-82,-3,-33,-37,-48,-51,,-58, ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"In 1889-90 and again in 1918-19 influenza was pandemic. It is not usual, although quite proper, to regard tuberculosis, syphilis and typhoid fever as ..."

3. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1920)
"The Occurrence of a pandemic Strain of Streptococcus During the pandemic of Influenza The uniformity of symptoms in typical influenza suggests that the ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE UNIDENTIFIED pandemic DISEASE (INFLUENZA?). BY DUDLEY ROBERTS, MD, MAJOR, ... THE pandemic of acute respiratory disease which started in Europe in 1918 ..."

5. The Genomic Revolution by National Academies Press (COR), National Academies (U.S.), Conference, Keck Futures Initiative (2006)
"How Would You Spend $100 Million Over the Next Five Years to Prevent the Next pandemic Flu? WORKING GROUP DESCRIPTION Background The 1918 pandemic influenza ..."

6. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"The pandemic of Influenza of 1918-19 The origin of the great pandemic which in 1918-19 swept the world is generally attributed to Spain, hence the name ..."

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