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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

... shabby stranger as he could have done if the sheeted dead had risen from one of the graves near at hand. But he uttered no exclamation of horror or surprise. He only shrank haughtily away from the Major's touch, as if there had been some infection to be dreaded from those ...

— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... loss of me and mine! Vine for vine be antidote, And the grape requite the lote! Haste to cure the old despair; Reason in Nature's lotus drench'd— The memory of ages quench'd— Give them again to shine; Let wine repair what this undid; And where the infection slid, A dazzling memory revive; Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures with the pen Which on the first day drew, Upon the tablets blue, The dancing Pleiads ...

— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy

... at that time in London, and other parts of the kingdom, a species of malady unknown to any other age or nation, the sweating sickness, which occasioned the sudden death of great multitudes; though it seemed not to be propagated by any contagious infection, but arose from the general disposition of the air and of the human body. In less than twenty-four hours the patient commonly died or recovered, but when the pestilence had exerted its fury for a few weeks, it was observed, either from alterations in the ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume

... Cattle Lifting. Delarey gives us a Field Day. Burnt to Death. The Infection of Spring again. Death of Lieutenant Stanley. His Burial. Promoted to Full Corporal. Petty Annoyances—The Nigger. A Wet Night. The Great Egg Trick. Our Friend "Nobby." "The Roughs" leave us for Pretoria. The breaking up of the Composite Squadron. ...

— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross

... that bad air (the original meaning of the word malaria) has nothing to do with fever and ague, and that swamps are not unwholesome if they are free from infected mosquitoes. The mosquito does not originate the malarial infection; it simply serves as the temporary host of the micro-organism (Plasmodium malarioe) which is the cause of the disease, having obtained its transient "guest" from some human being. Consequently, marshy districts that are full ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

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