Meaning of INFECTION

Pronunciation:			in'fekshun
Matching Terms:			infection thread, Infectious, Infectious disease, infectious hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, infectious mononucleosis screen, infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, infectious particle, infectious polyneuritis, infectiously, Infectiousness
Medical Dictionary
	Definition:		the invasion of the body by microorganisms that cause disease.
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Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abomination, adulteration, aerial infection, afflatus, airborne infection, animating spirit, animation, animus, atrocity, bad, bane, befouling, befoulment, besmirchment, blight, carrier, communicability, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, corruption, crying evil, cryptogenic infection, damage, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, direct infection, dirtying, divine afflatus, droplet infection, dust infection, enlivenment, envenoming, epidemiology, evil, exhilaration, festering, fire, firing, fouling, genius, grievance, hand infection, harm, havoc, hurt, ill, indirect infection, infectiousness, infusion, injury, inspiration, mischief, misuse, moving spirit, outrage, perversion, phytogenic infection, poison, poisoning, pollution, primary infection, prostitution, pyogenic infection, ritual uncleanness, secondary infection, soiling, subclinical infection, suppuration, taint, the worst, toxin, vector, venom, vexation, virus, vitiation, waterborne infection, woe, wrong, zoogenic infection