单词 | anti-contagion |
释义 | anti-contagionadj.ΚΠ 1823 C. Maclean tr. Appeal of Free Spaniard to Public Opinion of Europe 28 A French translation of the Barcelona anti-contagion manifesto of fifteen native and foreign physicians. 1850 London Med. Gaz. 5 Apr. 612/1 Your zeal in the anti-contagion cause has led you into a course more becoming a partisan than an impartial narrator of events. 2. Intended to prevent or hinder contagion. ΚΠ 1872 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 July 25/1 The print represented a medical man of the period dressed in an anti-contagion costume. 1995 D. S. Barnes Making of Social Dis. vi. 196 One doctor called for..the distribution of spittoons and anticontagion instructions to all those afflicted with the disease [sc. tuberculosis]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adj.1823 |
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