Definition of Infection

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

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

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
Stephen Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
Peter Lewis Allen

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Jane Smiley

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
Luc Montagnier

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Richard von Weizsaecker

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn

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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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