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Infection   /ɪnfˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Infection

noun
1.
The pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms.
2.
(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound.
3.
(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease.
4.
An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted.  Synonyms: contagion, transmission.
5.
The communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people.  Synonym: contagion.  "The infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
6.
Moral corruption or contamination.
7.
(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



... the slightest infection of the protected and pure air to take place, or, from some putrescent source, inoculate your sterilized fluid with the minutest atom, and shortly turbidity, offensive ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various

... bit, Might end in maddening the whole kit, Till ah! ye gods! we'd have to rue Our Goulburn senior bitten too; The Hychurchphobia in those veins, Where Tory blood now redly reigns;— And that dear man who now perceives Salvation only in lawn sleeves, Might, tainted by such coarse infection, Run mad in the opposite direction. And think, poor man, 'tis only given To ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... for any man, let him be never so fearful or phlegmatic, to be an unconcerned spectator in this busy scene. The demon of play hovers in the air, like a pestilential vapour, tainting the minds of all present with infallible infection, which communicates from one person to another, like the circulation of a general panic. Peregrine was seized with this epidemic distemper to a violent degree; and, after having lost a few loose hundreds, in ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue, a virtue which can expose itself to the risks inseparable from all spirited exertion, not a virtue which keeps out of the common air for fear of infection, and eschews the common food as too stimulating. It would be indeed absurd to attempt to keep men from acquiring those qualifications which fit them to play their part in life with honor to themselves and advantage to their country, for the sake of preserving a delicacy ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... excitement thus produced in the child, and after puberty mutual cunnilinctus was practiced with girl friends. Guttceit (Dreissig Jahre Praxis, Theil I, p. 310) remarks that some Russian officers who were in the Turkish campaign of 1828 told him that from fear of veneral infection in Wallachia they refrained from women and often used female asses which appeared to show signs of ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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