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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchinfection, fromLate Latinīnfectiō. Equivalent toinfect +‎-ion.

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infection (countable anduncountable,pluralinfections)

  1. (pathology) The act or process ofinfecting.
    Coordinate term:colonization(subclinical or commensal)
  2. An uncontrolled growth of harmfulmicroorganisms in ahost.
    Coordinate term:colonization(subclinical or commensal)
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume407, number8838, 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 andinfection—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. Adisease caused by such presence of apathogen.
    Coordinate term:colonization(subclinical or commensal)
    • 1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, “Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis”, inUnited States Naval Medical Bulletin‎[2], volume43, number 2, pages389–390:
      As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayedinfection which may not become manifest for years.
    • 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, inChicago Reader‎[3]:
      And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungusinfections in the blood of AIDS victims.
    • 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, inPLOS 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 mammaryinfections[…]
  4. A visiblesign of such a disease, such as thesuppuration 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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FromOld Frenchinfection, fromLate Latinīnfectiōnem.

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infection f (pluralinfections)

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

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Noun

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infection (pluralinfectiones)

  1. (pathology) The act or process ofinfecting.

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinīnfectiō.

Noun

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infectionoblique singular, f (oblique pluralinfections,nominative singularinfection,nominative pluralinfections)

  1. (countable)infection.
    • 1377,Bernard de Gordon,Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page172 of this essay:
      lainfection va tantost par tout le corps
      the infection travels around the whole body
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