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Definitions of infection
  1. noun
    an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

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  2. noun
    the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
    "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

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  3. noun
    (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
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  4. noun
    (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
  5. noun
    moral corruption or contamination
    "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
  6. noun
    (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
  7. noun
    the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
Parts of infection
  • "incubation"
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