Infection

Quick meaning: Infection is a noun meaning (pathology) The act or process of infecting.

Meaning

(pathology) The act or process of infecting.

More Meanings

1. An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
2. A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
3. A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.

Example Sentences

And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.

It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]

As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.

An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

Word Forms

• infections

Synonyms for infection

Depending on context, synonyms include contagion, transmission.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include contagion, transmission, communicable, infective, epidemic, infectivity.

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