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Infective

//ɪnˈfɛktɪv// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to cause infection; infectious

    "Hirsch has followed a group of 85 health care workers who were exposed to blood and bodily fluids of persons with AIDS. Thirty had been exposed by accidentally sticking themselves with needles containing blood and three had been spattered or had an open wound exposed to potentially infective blood."

Adjective
  1. 1
    able to cause disease wordnet
  2. 2
    caused by infection or capable of causing infection wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others.

    "It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From infect + -ive.

Etymology 2

From infect + -ive.

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