contagion
[kən'tedʒən]
n. 触染, 触染病, 蔓延, 歪

[医] 接触传染; 接触染

1. You'd better not touch these coats to avoid contagion.
   碰些，免传染病。
2. Fear spread through the crowd like a contagion.
   恐惧像瘟疫蔓延。
3. You will take the contagion.
   传染病。

contagion
[ noun ]

1. any disease easily transmitted by contact

<noun.state>

2. an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

<noun.event>

3. the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

<noun.communication>
a contagion of mirth
the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry

Contagion \Con*ta"gion\ (k[o^]n*t[=a]"j[u^]n), n. [L. contagio:
cf. F. contagion. See {Contact}.]
1. (Med.) The transmission of a disease from one person to
another, by direct or indirect contact.

Note: The term has been applied by some to the action of
miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter,
bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now
abandoned. --Dunglison.

And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
To dare the vile contagion of the night? --Shak.

2. That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit
disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding
from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the
disease.

3. The act or means of communicating any influence to the
mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. ``The
contagion of example.'' --Eikon Basilike.

When lust . . .
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion. --Milton.

4. Venom; poison. [Obs.] ``I'll touch my point with this
contagion.'' --Shak.

Syn: See {Infection}.