Quarantine
A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease, but do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. The term is often used synonymously with medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population.Quarantine may be used interchangeably with cordon sanitaire, and although the terms are related, cordon sanitaire refers to the restriction of movement of people into or out of a defined geographic area, such as a community, in order to prevent an infection from spreading.The word quarantine comes from a seventeenth-century Venetian variant of the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning forty days, the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. Quarantine can be applied to humans, but also to animals of various kinds, and both as part of border control as well as within a country.
Quarantine (noun)
A desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible
Quarantine (noun)
A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband’s home, regardless of the inheritance
Quarantine (noun)
A sanitary measure to prevent the spread of a contagious plague by isolating those believed to be infected.
Quarantine (noun)
Such official detention of a ship at or off port due to suspicion that it may be carrying a contagious disease aboard.
Quarantine (noun)
A certain place for isolating persons suspected of suffering from a contagious disease.
Quarantine (noun)
A certain period of time during which a person is isolated to determine whether they’ve been infected with a contagious disease.
Quarantine (noun)
Any rigorous measure of isolation, regardless of the reason.
Quarantine (noun)
A record system kept by port health authorities in order to monitor and prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
Quarantine (noun)
A place where email messages or other files which are suspected of harboring a virus are stored.
Quarantine (verb)
To retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease.
Quarantine (verb)
To put in isolation as if by quarantine
Isolation (noun)
The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
Isolation (noun)
The state of being away from other people.
Isolation (noun)
The act of isolating.
Isolation (noun)
The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
Isolation (noun)
The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
Isolation (noun)
The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others
Isolation (noun)
a database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.