Word Type

Noun

The word "infection" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Causes

death malfunction

Coordinate Terms

colonization

Derived Terms

Vincent's infection agroinfection anti-infection antiinfection autoinfection bladder infection coinfection cross-infection disinfection hydrofection hyperinfection infectiology infectional infectionism infectionist lytic infection microinfection monoinfection neuroinfection noninfection opportunistic infection parainfection postinfection preinfection pseudoinfection reinfection retroinfection secondary infection self-infection sexually transmitted infection spinfection spurious infection subinfection superinfection suprainfection toxicoinfection transfection transinfection urinary tract infection urinary-tract infection xenoinfection yeast infection

Derived From

infect infectious

Context

law medicine pathology phonetics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

communication corruption corruptness health problem ill health illegality incident linguistic process pathologic process pathological process unhealthiness

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

See: List of infectious diseases

Type Of (IsA)

controlled vocabulary types corruptness diagnosis of mycotic infection disease ill health illegality illness incident linguistic process medical diagnosis pathologic process

Receives Action

caused by bacteria caused by bacteria and viruses

Related Terms

exfection infect infectable infected infection prevention and control infectious disease infective

Related Terms

areas bacterial bacterial areas host infect infectable infected microorganisms penetrating penetrating bacterial

Synonym Network

contagion

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