infection
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
infection (countable and uncountable, plural infections)
- (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
- An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
- 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.
- A disease caused by a pathogen.
- A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- agroinfection
- antiinfection
- anti-infection
- autoinfection
- bladder infection
- coinfection
- cross-infection
- disinfection
- hydrofection
- hyperinfection
- infectiology
- infectional
- infectionism
- infectionist
- lytic infection
- microinfection
- monoinfection
- neuroinfection
- noninfection
- opportunistic infection
- parainfection
- postinfection
- preinfection
- pseudoinfection
- reinfection
- retroinfection
- secondary infection
- self-infection
- sexually transmitted infection
- spinfection
- spurious infection
- subinfection
- superinfection
- suprainfection
- toxicoinfection
- transfection
- transinfection
- urinary tract infection
- urinary-tract infection
- Vincent's infection
- xenoinfection
- yeast infection
Related terms edit
- infect, infected, infectable, infectious disease, infection prevention and control (infection control), infective
Translations edit
the process of infecting
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uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host
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disease
visible sign
See also edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
infection f (plural infections)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: enfeksiyon
Further reading edit
- “infection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
infection (plural infectiones)
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
infection oblique singular, f (oblique plural infections, nominative singular infection, nominative plural infections)
- (countable) infection.
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 172 of this essay:
- la infection va tantost par tout le corps
- the infection travels around the whole body