INFECTIOUS
\ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], \ɪnfˈɛkʃəs], \ɪ_n_f_ˈɛ_k_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of INFECTIOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
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Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
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Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
By Oddity Software
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Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
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Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
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Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
By Noah Webster.
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That may be given to others by communication; as, measles is an infectious disease; sympathetic; carrying the power to affect with a disease.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Infectiousness.
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1. Capable of being transmitted by infection, with or without actual contact (see contagious). 2. Producing an infection, infective. 3. Noting a disease due to the action of a microorganism, either animal or vegetable.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Pertaining to or of the nature of infection. Capable of transmitting disease or disease-producing germs.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Contagious, influencing by communicated qualities.
By Thomas Sheridan
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