Self-quarantine

Quick meaning: Self-quarantine is a verb meaning (intransitive, epidemiology) To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.

Meaning

(intransitive, epidemiology) To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.

More Meanings

1. (epidemiology) Isolation by avoiding physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.

Example Sentences

Eleven city firefighters have tested positive, and more than 50 are in self-quarantine.

He said that he became sick with relatively mild symptoms about a week ago and self-quarantined at his home.

We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties.

Word Forms

• self-quarantines
• self-quarantining
• self-quarantined

Synonyms for self-quarantine

Depending on context, synonyms include self-isolate, self-isolation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include self-isolate, quarantine, isolate, unquarantine, seclude, cut off.

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