What's the difference between noncommunicable and noncontagious?
Noncommunicable
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Noncontagious
Definition:
(a.) Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.
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(1) Starting from 1978, noncontagious febrile diseases of unclear etiology, accompanied by pronounced headache, roseolous-papular eruptions, prolonged convalescence period, are registered in May-September in Astrakhan Province.
(2) The priority trend in the activity of health service is prevention of the principal noncontagious diseases, cardiovascular diseases being a major part among them.
(3) Ehrlichial organisms cause a disease called "ehrlichiosis," a noncontagious infectious disease known to be transmitted by a tick in several cases and by a fluke in one case.
(4) Self-help groups for individuals with sarcoidosis (a noncontagious multisystem disorder characterized by granulomas in many organs) are rare despite the physical and emotional problems associated with this disease.
(5) Because there is a high incidence of noncontagious disease in the elderly, they are the group most useful for the study of new therapeutic agents or procedures.
(6) It is possible that CJD could also occur sporadically as a noncontagious disease by a mechanism akin to oncogenes in carcinogenesis.
(7) Coccidioidomycosis is accepted as being noncontagious because the infectious arthroconidial form of Coccidioides immitis is not produced in humans and other mammalian hosts.
(8) Mycetoma is a localized noncontagious infection that involves cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, fascia, and bone.