infection
in fek shuhn
- n the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
- n (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- n (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- n an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- n the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry - n moral corruption or contamination
ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable - n (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- Heide Benser Corbis So why do infections tend to go up in the cold winter months and level off in the summer? According to a study from researchers at Mount Sinai Medical School .
- The new study showed that BLT mice were susceptible to vaginal HIV infection, just like humans, and that the symptoms of their infection looked a lot like they did in people a .
- The staph strains responsible for these infections, experts speculate, may be more aggressive, and potentially deadlier, than strains circulating in hospitals, in part because .