Vocabulary : Consumption to Contagionist

Consumption : The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. ;; The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. ;; A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
Consumptive : Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. ;; Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. ;; One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptively : In a way tending to or indication consumption.
Consumptiveness : A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Contabescent : Wasting away gradually.

Contact : A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. ;; The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. ;; The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Contaction : Act of touching.
Contagion : The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact. ;; 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. ;; The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. ;; Venom; poison.
Contagioned : Affected by contagion.
Contagionist : One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

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