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Infection

noun

The pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.

(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound.

(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease.

An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted. Synonyms: contagion, transmission.

The communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people. Synonym: contagion. "The infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

Moral corruption or contamination.

(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure.

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"Infection" Quotes from Famous Books

... sudden attack of the malady to which we have alluded. Whether Mr John had been sent home with a diuretic or composing draught to some patient far gone in the poetical mania, we have not heard. This much is certain, that he has caught the infection, and that thoroughly. For some time we were in hopes, that he might get off with a violent fit or two; but of late the symptoms are terrible. The phrenzy of the "Poems" was bad enough in its way; but it did not alarm us half so ...

— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney

... islands in the South Seas, without having caused any perceptible diminution in the population. It is not known that plague of any kind has ever raged here: it was, therefore, the bloody persecution instigated by the Missionaries which performed the office of a desolating infection. I really believe that these pious people were themselves shocked at the consequences of their zeal; but they soon consoled themselves; and have ever since continued to watch with the most vigilant severity over the maintenance of every article of ...

— A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 • Otto von Kotzebue

... century. It is true that Schwann shrewdly drew conclusions as to the relation of microscopic organisms to various processes of fermentation and decay—conclusions which, although not accepted at the time, have subsequently proved to be correct. It is true that Fuchs made a careful study of the infection of "blue milk," reaching the correct conclusion that the infection was caused by a microscopic organism which he discovered and carefully studied. It is true that Henle made a general theory as to the relation of such organisms to diseases, and ...

— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn

... Cortlandt had one of those violent fits of coughing that often troubled her; this one was so bad that she was obliged to leave the room for a moment. The worst of it was that one or two of the other teachers seemed to have caught the infection, for there was a regular outbreak of coughing and choking, which only a severe glance from Miss ...

— Peggy • Laura E. Richards

... reasonably modern medical techniques, almost any sort of infection should be stopped long before there were as many cases ...

— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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