Pandemic — Pan*dem ic, a. [L. pandemus, Gr. ?, ?; pa^s, pa^n, all + ? the people: cf. F. pand[ e]mique.] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. n. A pandemic disease. Harvey. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pandemic — [pan dem′ik] adj. [< LL pandemus < Gr pandēmos < pan, all (see PAN ) + dēmos, the people: see DEMOCRACY] prevalent over a whole area, country, etc.; universal; general; specif., epidemic over a large region: said of a disease n. a… … English World dictionary
pandemic — index general, omnibus, predominant, prevailing (current), prevalent, rife Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton … Law dictionary
pandemic — (adj.) 1666, from Gk. pandemos pertaining to all people, from pan all + demos people (see DEMOTIC (Cf. demotic)). Modeled on EPIDEMIC (Cf. epidemic). The noun is first recorded 1853, from the adj … Etymology dictionary
pandemic — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or large part of the world. ► NOUN ▪ an outbreak of such a disease. ORIGIN from Greek pan all + d mos people … English terms dictionary
Pandemic — A pandemic (from Greek παν pan all + δήμος demos people) is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through human populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide.DefinitionAccording to the World Health… … Wikipedia
Pandemic — An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world. By contrast: {{}}An epidemic affects more than the expected number of cases of disease occurring in a community or region during a … Medical dictionary
pandemic — A pandemic disease is one prevalent throughout a country, a continent, or the entire world. Pandemic suggests universal, widespread, and general : Fear of atomic warfare is pandemic. See also epidemic … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
pandemic — [[t]pænde̱mɪk[/t]] pandemics N COUNT A pandemic is an occurrence of a disease that affects many people over a very wide area. [FORMAL] They feared a new cholera pandemic... One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide … English dictionary
pandemic — n. an epidemic so widely spread that vast numbers of people in different countries are affected. The Black Death, the epidemic plague that ravaged Europe in the fourteenth century and killed over one third of the population, was a classical… … The new mediacal dictionary
