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Patient Zero (M2U2)
Patient Zero Module 2 Unit 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| contagion | a disease spread by close contact |
| relevant | related to what is being discussed |
| sufficient | enough, as much as is needed |
| sound | having a solid base; makes sense |
| nebulous | hazy, confused, or indistinct |
| insubstantial | lacking firmness or substance; not substantial; slight |
| behemoth | any enormous or powerful creature or thing |
| corpus | a collection of all the written works on a particular subject, by a particular author, or of a particular kind |
| piggybacking | using existing work as a basis or support |
| epidemiology | the branch of medicine that deals with how diseases spread through populations |
| rigorous | thoroughly accurate, precise |
| social contagion | the spread of ideas, attitudes, or behavior patterns in a group through imitation and conformity |
| analogy | the likening of one thing to another based on similarity of features |
| context | background information necessary for understanding a topic |