Synonyms for infection
ɪnˈfɛk ʃənin·fec·tion

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1. infection

   Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.

   Synonyms:
   contagion

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1. infection

   Synonyms:
   taint, poison, contamination, corruption, contagion

   Antonyms:
   purification, disinfection, antidote

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1. infectionnoun

   the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

2. infectionnoun

   (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

3. infectionnoun

   (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

4. infection, contagion, transmissionnoun

   an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, contagion, transmittal, transmitting, transmission system

5. contagion, infectionnoun

   the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

   "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagion, contagious disease

6. infectionnoun

   moral corruption or contamination

   "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

7. infectionnoun

   (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. buboes

   because it happened during the black death happened

   the people would get buboes by fleas

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contagion

2. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison

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1. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contagion, contamination, vitiation, pollution

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1. List of paraphrases for "infection":

   infections, contagion, contamination, infected, disease, infectious, infestation

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1. Scott Olson/Getty:

   There are districts that have been doing 3 feet for quite some time without experiencing any greater amount of infection.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   I've never seen an infection with this broad range of manifestations.

3. Alessio Fasano:

   CORONAVIRUS IN THE US : STATE-BY-STATE BREAKDOWN The researchers found although children are less likely to get severely ill with the virus, they can easily spread it to vulnerable adults in their lives, especially if theyre in school. Roberta DeBiasi added that, based on other respiratory illnesses, children are known spreaders. The researchers also studied a rare infection that can result in heart problems fromthe childs immune response to the virus. This is a severe complication as a result of the immune response to COVID-19 infection, and the number of these patients is growing, and, as in adults with these very serious systemic complications, the heart seems to be the favorite organ targeted by post-COVID-19 immune response. She said the immune response complication should factor into vaccine production strategy. The researchers recommend wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing, a combination of in-person and remote learning and frequent testing if returning to school in the fall.

4. Trizia Herrera:

   It's not just that the risk of infection is high but what's being called a return to the new normal could make new cases increase exponentially... leading to more loss of life, it seems premature that President Lopez Obrador is talking about ruling out a deluge in Mexico, as the epidemic is still growing.

5. Ashish Jha:

   If you're in a low-infection, high-vaccination area, you don't need to be wearing a mask indoors if you're fully vaccinated, if I were in southwest Missouri right now, I'm fully vaccinated but I would be wearing a mask indoors.