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. Bruce Walker:

   On the other hand, if some viruses sneak through and infect a cell ; then the body is dependent upon T cells to eliminate the virus, and therein lies the opportunity for us to rethink what we're doing in terms of vaccination -- because those T cells, at least theoretically, could be highly potent and could attenuate the disease. In other words, they wouldn't protect against infection, but they might make infections so asymptomatic that you would not notice it yourself and, in fact, you would never have enough virus in your body to transmit it to somebody else. That's the hypothesis.

2. Sung Won Sohn:

   The economy is almost in free fall, we will see the bottom when the coronavirus infection rates stabilize. It's going to be a pretty deep bottom from which to come up.

3. Ben Cowling:

   Theres been enough research done to be able to confidently say that masks wouldnt be able to stop the spread of infection, that they would only have a small effect on transmission, we shouldnt be relying on masks to help us go back to normal.

4. Celine Gounder:

   We're also all taxpayers and the amount of resources that are now being used in California per se as a result of the Disneyland outbreak, there's a tremendous amount of resources to track down everybody who's been in contact with those cases, if you end up on a ventilator in intensive care because you have measles, if you have a brain infection that causes lifelong brain damage, that's a burden on all of us.

5. Bert Jacobs:

   Once there is a good animal model which gives symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection, we can ask if vaccination decreases or enhances pathogenesis, these may be longer term studies that could take several months.