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quarantine noun confinement, custody, medical segregation, period of detention, period of isolation, restraint of movement, sanitary cordon, seclusion, segregation, separation, strict isolation See also: captivity, confine, constraint, contain, detain, detention, durance, enclose, exclude, immure, imprisonment, insulate, isolate, ostracism, seclude, sequester QUARANTINE, commerce, crim. law. The space of forty days, or a less quantity
of time, during which the crew of a ship or vessel coming from a port or
place infected or supposed to be infected with disease, are required to
remain on board after their arrival, before they can be permitted to land.
QUARANTINE, inheritances, rights. The space of forty days during which a
widow has a right to remain in her late husband's principal mansion,
immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her
quarantine.
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Quarantinable and Zoonotic Infections in Kazakhstan. In April 2003, in response to the SARS outbreak, the federal executive branch acted rapidly to add SARS to the list of quarantinable communicable diseases. That agency in turn reports internationally quarantinable diseases to the World Health Organization (available from: URL: http://www. |
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