| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 免疫 | めんえき | immunity, immunization, immunisation |
| 検疫 | けんえき | quarantine, medical inspection |
| 防疫 | ぼうえき | communicable disease control (e.g. by quarantine, disinfection, etc.), prevention of epidemics |
| 検疫所 | けんえきしょ, けんえきじょ | quarantine station |
| 疫病 | えきびょう, やくびょう | infectious disease, plague, epidemic |
| 悪疫 | あくえき | epidemic |
| 疫学 | えきがく | epidemiology, the study of epidemics |
| 疫病神 | やくびょうがみ, えきびょうがみ | jinx (lit: god of pestilence), hoodoo, pest, odious person, plague, angel of death |
| 疫痢 | えきり | children's dysentery |
| 疫癘 | えきれい | epidemic, plague, pestilence |