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communicate a disease to; "Your children have infected you with this head cold" contaminate with a disease or microorganism contaminate with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism" affect in a contagious way; "His laughter infects everyone who is in the same room"
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| infection |
the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted contagion: the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry" moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable" (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
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| infectious |
caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" easily spread; "fear is exceedingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell of or relating to infection; "infectious hospital"; "infectious disease"
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| infectious disease |
a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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| infectious hepatitis |
hepatitis A: an acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaminated with fecal matter
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