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- Infectious - a. - Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
- Infectious - a. - Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
- Infectious - a. - Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
- Infectious - a. - Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
- Infectiously - adv. - In an infectious manner.
- Infectiousness - n. - The quality of being infectious.
- Murrain - n. - An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
- Microorganism - n. - Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
- Microzyme - n. - A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
- Anthrax - n. - An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
- Inoculate - v. t. - To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
- Pestilence - n. - Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
- Zymosis - n. - A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.
- Disinfect - v. t. - To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.
- Mumps - n. - A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.
- Infectious - a. - Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
- Fomes - n. - Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.
- Syphilis - n. - The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
- Microphyte - n. - A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
- Infect - v. t. - To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
- Pathogene - n. - One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.
- Infectious - a. - Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
- Infectiously - adv. - In an infectious manner.