epidemicity
[ ĕp′ĭ-də-mĭs′ĭ-tē ]
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n.
The ability to spread from one host to others; the state of being epidemic.
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How to use epidemicity in a sentence
It principally affects the alluvial soil near the mouths of the great rivers, and more particularly the delta Epidemicity.
Dr. Kerr attributed this increase to exacerbation in the type, and epidemicity of the disease.
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