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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1. • Communication
   • Corruption
   • Ill Health
   • Illegality
   • Incident
   • Law
   • Linguistic Process
   • Medicine
   • Pathologic Process
   • Phonetics

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. Tariq Madani:

   None of them recalls having a severe infection or pneumonia, and this indicates that you get some sort of immunity as a result of repeated exposure to camels and the virus.

2. Laith Abu-Raddad:

   The best thing anyone can do right now is to get a booster, boosters bring back the protection against infection to what it used to be about 60 %, which is great.

3. Natalia Uglow:

   I was concerned about her and said to Ana to speak to the teachers and ask them to see a doctor and phone me back. I told her to exaggerate her symptoms if necessary to get the result and say that her parents were concerned, i also offered to speak to them myself. I believe Ana spoke to Mr. (Rory) Hambly as she reported back that Mr. Hambly had told her that she would have had a higher temperature if she had a chest infection and advised her to take paracetamol.

4. Andrew Vaughan:

   These recent findings may be a link between Type 2 inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, as well as nasal polyps, following a respiratory viral infection.

5. Joseph Vinetz:

   The idea about the face mask is to prevent the virus from coming out of somebody's mouth and nose, mostly out of their mouth, they prevent somebody, when they talk or sometimes when they sneeze or cough, from expelling virus and leading to infection in other people.