infection
/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.33 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time."
- "As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years."
- "And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims."
- "It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
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Frequently Paired Words
infect
infected
infectable
infectious disease
infection prevention and control
infective
exfection
colonization