*Simmer the chopped beets in a cup of water, covered, until tender, 30-40 minutes, or used canned beets. Use the beet juice from the cooking water, or the juice from canned beets. Curried pickled eggs. 1  1 cup cider vinegar.
medical definition of communicable disease an infectious disease transmissible as from person to person by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual s discharges or by indirect means as by a vector compare contagious disease
Contagious, literally âcommunicable by contact,â describes a very easily transmitted disease as influenza or the common cold. Infectious refers to a disease involving a microorganism that can be transmitted from one person to another only by a specific kind of contact; venereal diseases are usually infectious.