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Word Meanings - BELEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To infect with leprosy. Beau. & Fl.

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  • INFECTIOUSLY
    In an infectious manner. Shak.
  • LEPROSY
    A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
  • INFECTIVE
    Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
  • INFECTIOUS
    Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
  • INFECTIOUSNESS
    The quality of being infectious.
  • INFECTION
    Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication. 6. Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence. Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.
  • INFECT
    Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
  • INFECTIBLE
    Capable of being infected.
  • INFECTER
    One who, or that which, infects.
  • REINFECT
    To infect again.
  • DISINFECT
    To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
  • DISINFECTANT
    That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
  • DISINFECTOR
    One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
  • AUTO-INFECTION
    Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.
  • DISINFECTION
    The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
  • REINFECTIOUS
    Capable of reinfecting.

 

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