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infectious
[ in-fek-shuhs ]
adjective
- communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another:
infectious diseases.
Synonyms: catching
- causing or communicating infection.
- tending to spread from one to another:
infectious laughter.
- Law. capable of contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure or forfeiture.
- Obsolete. diseased.
infectious
/ ɪnˈfɛkʃəs /
adjective
- (of a disease) capable of being transmitted Compare contagious
- (of a disease) caused by microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, or protozoa
- causing or transmitting infection
- tending or apt to spread, as from one person to another
infectious mirth
- international law
- tainting or capable of tainting with illegality
- rendering liable to seizure or forfeiture
infectious
/ ĭn-fĕk′shəs /
- Capable of causing infection.
- See Note at contagious
Derived Forms
- inˈfectiousness, noun
- inˈfectiously, adverb
Other Words From
- in·fectious·ly adverb
- in·fectious·ness noun
- nonin·fectious adjective
- nonin·fectious·ly adverb
- nonin·fectious·ness noun
- unin·fectious adjective
- unin·fectious·ly adverb
- unin·fectious·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of infectious1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
For most infectious, the amount is 100 or even 1,000 times that.
Although bats may have creeped us out for centuries, their links to emerging infectious diseases are much more recent.
In Malaysia and Bangladesh, a devastating infectious neurological disease emerged just a few years after Hendra.
The only existing study, printed in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in 1999, leaves scientists with the same questions.
Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.
The last movement had the infectious gayety that Mozart's things often have, with a magnificent cadenza by himself.
The infectious diseases in which leukocytosis is absent (p. 160) often cause a slight decrease of leukocytes.
(b) Acute infectious diseases, especially rheumatism and typhoid fever.
Predominance of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (pus-corpuscles) points to an acute infectious process (Fig. 117).
The usual cause of acute infectious conjunctivitis, especially in cities, seems to be the Koch-Weeks bacillus.
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