See Also: epidemic fadeout(medicine)
endemic fadeout(medicine)
epidemic(dictionary)
Epidemic(medicine)
epidemic(dictionary)
Epidemic(health)
epidemic myalgia(medicine)
epidemic roseola(medicine)
epidemic pleurodynia(medicine)
epidemic myositis(medicine)

mailed (iou) and epidemic fadeout (medicine)


mailed (iou)



mailed adjective. LME.
[from MAIL noun2 + -ED2.]
Covered with or composed of mail or plates of metal. LME.
Joyce With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear.
Armed with mail, mail-clad; (of a ship) ironclad. LME.
T. Woolner With charge of mailed horse and showers Of steel. fig.: Guardian Accused..of being the silk glove that masks the mailed fist.
Of a hawk: having mail or breast-feathers (of a specified colour). Formerly also, (of a bird's plumage etc.) speckled, spotted. LME.
J. Josselyn The Osprey, which in this Country is white mail'd.
Of an animal etc.: having a skin or protective covering resembling mail-armour. LME.
R. Owen The ball-proof character of the skin of the largest of these mailed examples.

epidemic fadeout (medicine)


epidemic fadeout
<epidemiology> Parasite extinction occurring because numbers are so low immediately following an epidemic that it is possible for small stochastic fluctuations to remove all parasites. Contrast endemic fadeout.