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  • noun The condition of being epidemic.

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  • noun The condition of being epidemic

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Examples

  • And, truly, everywhere in life where people are bound by common interests, blood relationship, or the benefits of a profession into close, individualized groups -- there inevitably can be observed this mysterious law of sudden accumulation, of a piling up, of events; their epidemicity, their strange succession and connectedness, their incomprehensible lingering.

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

  • Dr. Kerr attributed this increase to exacerbation in the type, and epidemicity of the disease.

    Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869

  • Nathanson N, Martín JR (1979) The epidemiology of poliomyelitis: enigmas surrounding its appearance, epidemicity, and disappearance.

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  • Nathanson N, Martín JR (1979) The epidemiology of poliomyelitis: enigmas surrounding its appearance, epidemicity, and disappearance.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

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