fomite

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfəʊmʌɪt/    美 /ˈfoʊmaɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses or prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry.
    — This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.

词形变化

fomites plural

词源

A back-formation from fomites, plural of fomes, a borrowing of medical Latin fōmes (“tinder, kindling”), used figuratively to evoke the analogy of a spreading infection to a spreading fire.
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