Definition of Infection

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Infection

The act or process of infecting.

That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.

The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.

That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.

Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.

Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.

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Infection Quotations

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
Luc Montagnier

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.
Luc Montagnier

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.
David Geffen

What seems to be clear to me is that after the primary infection most of the cells die indirectly, but at the later stage, when the viral load is very high, the virus kills a lot of cells directly.
Luc Montagnier

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
Dick Dale

Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?
Robert MacNeil

Infection Translations

infection in Dutch is infectie, besmetting
infection in German is Ansteckung {f}
infection in Italian is infezione
infection in Norwegian is infeksjon, smitte
infection in Swedish is smitta, infektion

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