INFECTION
\ɪnfˈɛkʃən], \ɪnfˈɛkʃən], \ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INFECTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
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moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
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(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
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(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
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an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
By Princeton University
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the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
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moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
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(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
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(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of infecting.
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That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
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That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
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Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of infecting.
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That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
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That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
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Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
By Noah Webster.
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Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically inapparent or result in local cellular injury. A local infection may persist and spread by extension to become an acute, subacute, or chronic clinical infection or disease state. It may also become systemic when the microorganisms gain access to the lymphatic or vascular system. (From Dorland, 27th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of communicating disease or taint; that which communicates disease or corrupts; taint; communication of disease from the sick to the healthy; a disease that may be communicated.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The communication of disease from one person to another, whether by effluvia or by contact, mediate or immediate; also, the implantation of disease from without.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act or process by which disease is set up in a vegetable, animal, or human organism by the implantation of animal or vegetable parasites. The successful invasion and growth of microorganisms in the tissues of the body (Kolmer).
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The material by which communicable diseases are propagated.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act or process of infecting ; contagion ; communication of disease by contact ; - result of infecting influence ; a prevailing disease ; - that which taints, poisons, or corrupts, by communication from one to another ; - contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.
By Thomas Sheridan
