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infection

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Etymology

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From Old French infection , from Late Latin īnfectiō . Equivalent to infect +‎ -ion .

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infection (countable and uncountable , plural infections )

  1. (pathology ) The act or process of infecting.
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
  2. An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
    • 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.
  3. A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
    Synonym: infectious disease
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
    • 1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, "Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis", in United States Naval Medical Bulletin‎[2] , volume 43, number 2, pages 389–390:
      As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
    • 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, "The Yeast of Our Problems", in Chicago Reader‎[3] :
      And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
    • 2015 August 29, "Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum", in PLOS ONE‎[4] , →DOI :
      It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections [...]
  4. A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.

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the process of infecting
uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host
disease
visible sign

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French

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old French infection .

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    Noun

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    infection f (plural infections )

    1. (pathology ) infection
    2. (informal ) stench, stink
      Synonyms: puanteur , pestilence

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    Noun

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    infection (plural infectiones )

    1. (pathology ) The act or process of infecting.

    Old French

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    Etymology

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      Learned borrowing from Latin īnfectiōnem .

      Noun

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      infection oblique singular, f (oblique plural infections , nominative singular infection, nominative plural infections )

      1. (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

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