communicable disease:

Medico-legal term for an infectious or sexually-transmitted-disease . See STD for synonyms.

Quote: Ralph (Danny DeVito) blaming Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) for his incarceration in The Jewel of the Nile ((1985): ' They threw me in a jail filled with rejects from the communicable diseases ward. Every wacko, drippy, open-soared low-life was in that joint , all of 'em wanting to hire on as my proctologist .'

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