1) An act or fact of infecting 2) Contamination 3) Corruption 4) French word used in English 5) Health problem 6) Infectious disease 7) Infectivity 8) Pollution 9) State of being infected 10) Unhealthiness
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1) Bilharzia 2) Bilharziasis 3) Contamination 4) Enterobiasis 5) Excitation 6) Flu 7) Hordeolum 8) Illness 9) Influenza 10) Itch 11) Lockjaw 12) Paronychia 13) Pestilence 14) Scabies 15) Schistosomiasis 16) Sepsis 17) Sty 18) Stye 19) Superinfection 20) Suprainfection 21) Tetanus 22) Toxoplasmosis 23) Vaccina
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Infection is the action a virus carries out when it enters a computer system or storage device.
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In the early part of the last century, infections were thought to be the propagation of disease by effluvia (see above) from patients crowded together. "Miasms" were believed to be substances which could not be seen in any form--emanations not apparent to the senses. Such miasms were understood to act by infection.
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• (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. • (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused. • (n.) The act or process of infecting. &bull...
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1. invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication, or antigen-antibody response. The infection may remain localized, subclinical, and temporary if the body's defensive mechanisms are effective. A l.....
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(from the article `infectious disease`) in medicine, a process caused by a microorganism that impairs a person`s health. An infection, by contrast, is the invasion of and replication in the ... ...problems related to variations in transmissibility of organisms and in susceptibility of individuals to disease. Light was thrown on these .....
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Invasion and multiplication of germs in the body. Infections can occur in any part of the body and can spread throughout the body. The germs may be bacteria, viruses, yeast, or fungi. They can cause a fever and other problems, depending on where the infection occurs. When the body
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1. <microbiology> Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication or antigen antibody response. The infection may remain localised, subclinical and temporary if the bodys defensive mechanisms ar...
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(in-fek´shәn) invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues; see also infectious disease.
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a condition in which the body is invaded by an infectious organism (e.g., bacteria, virus, fungus).
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In the early part of the last century, infections were thought to be the propagation of disease by e
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In·fec'tion noun [ Confer French
infection , Latin
infectio a dyeing.]
1. The act or process of infecting. « There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent
infection .»
De Foe. 2. That which infects, or ca...
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Infection: The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another organism and draws its nourishment therefrom.) A person with an infection has another organism (a 'germ') growing within him, drawing its nourishment from the person. The term 'infection' has some exceptions. For example, the norm...
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In the early part of the last century, infections were thought to be the propagation of disease by effluvia (see above) from patients crowded together. "Miasms" were believed to be substances which could not be seen in any form--emanations not apparent to the senses. Such miasms were understood to act by infection.
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Condition in which virulent organisms are able to multiply within the body and cause a response from the host's immune defenses. Infection may or may not lead to clinical disease.
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an invasion by microscopic organisms that can lead to illness
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(infected) When germs, viruses or bacteria become overgrown and cause illness
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Illness brought on by microscopic life forms
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Illness caused by micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi. Signs of infection include a high temperature and pain, swelling and redness in the infected area.
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disease-causing micro-organisms that enter the body, multiply, and damage cells or release toxins
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contagion noun an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
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In brewing, an infection refers to significant levels of any microbes in the beer wort other than the desired yeast. Potential infecting microbes include wild yeasts (and other fungi), as well as various bacteria. Symptoms of an infection can vary widely depending on the specific infecting microbe(s), and can include (but are not limited to): mo...
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an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected. · an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing. · an infecting agency or influence. · an infectious disease: Is this infection very dangerous? · the condition of suffering an infection. · corruption of another's...
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the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
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