Definition of infections

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Definition of infections

  • an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. contagion
    2. transmission
  • the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people (noun)

    Examples

    1. the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry

    Synonyms

    1. contagion
  • (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure (noun)
  • (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease (noun)
  • moral corruption or contamination (noun)

    Examples

    1. ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable
  • (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound (noun)
  • the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms (noun)

See definition of infections in Merriam Webster