infection

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of infecting. countable,uncountable
  2. An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host. countable,uncountable
    — An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
  3. A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen. countable,uncountable
    — As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
  4. A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound. countable,uncountable

词形变化

infections plural

词汇关系

下位词
See: List of infectious diseases
衍生词
agroinfection antiinfection anti-infection 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 Vincent's infection xenoinfection yeast infection
相关词
infect infected infectable infectious disease infection prevention and control infective exfection

词源

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion.
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