Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
quarantine
quar·an·tine [ kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor- ]
Subclass of:
Communicable Disease Control
Etymology:
Italian quarantina = forty days
In the past, forty was the customary number of days of isolation against contagion.
In the past, forty was the customary number of days of isolation against contagion.
Definitions related to quarantine:
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A period of time in which a sick person is kept away from others to prevent the spread of disease.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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Limited freedom of movement of individuals to reduce the risk of spread of communicable disease by those who have been exposed to infectious or communicable disease in order to prevent its spread; a period of detention of vessels, vehicles, or travelers coming from infected or suspected places; and detention or isolation on account of suspected contagion. It includes government regulations on the detention of animals at frontiers or ports of entrance for the prevention of infectious disease. (From Black's Veterinary Dictionary, 17th ed)NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Place into enforced isolation.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(isolation/quarantine) Restriction of freedom of movement of individuals who have been exposed to infectious or communicable disease in order to prevent its spread; a period of detention of vessels, vehicles, or travelers coming from infected or suspected places; detention or isolation on account of suspected contagion; it includes government regulations on the detention of animals at frontiers or ports of entrance for the prevention of infectious disease, through a period of isolation before being allowed to enter a country.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Quarantine, the separation and restriction of travel of humans or other animals that may have come into contact with an infectious disease. Individuals remain under quarantine until it is deemed certain that they are free of infection. In the vocabulary of disease control, the terms quarantine and...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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