English-Thai Dictionary

infection

N การ ติดเชื้อ  การติดโรค  contamination contagion kan-tid-chue

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INFECTION

n.[L. inficio.] The act of infecting, or the act by which poisonous matter, morbid miasmata or exhalations produce disease in a healthy body. The words contagion and infection are frequently confounded. The proper distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the specific disease in a healthy body by contact or otherwise. Marsh miasm is not properly contagion. Infection is any thing that taints or corrupts; hence it includes contagion, and any other morbid, noxious matter which may excite disease in a healthy body. Hence, 1. The morbid cause which excites disease in a healthy or uninfected body. This cause may be contagion from a diseased body, or other poisonous or noxious matter received into the body or under the skin. The infection of the plague and of yellow fever, is said to be imported in ships and conveyed in clothing; persons are said to take the infection from a diseased person, or from the air of apartments where the sick are confined. The infection spreads in a city, or it is free from infection. Pestilential exhalations are called infections.
Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred.
2. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as the infection of error or of evil example.
3. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.
4. Communication of like qualities.
Mankind are gay or serious by infection.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INFECTION

In *fec "tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. infection, L. infectio a dyeing. ]

 

1. The act or process of infecting. There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

 

2. That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused. And that which was still worse, they that did thus break out spread the infection further by their wandering about with the distemper upon them. De Foe.

 

3. The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

 

4. That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles. It was her chance to light Amidst the gross infections of those times. Daniel.

 

5. (Law )

 

Defn: Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.

 

6. Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence. Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.

 

Syn. -- Infection, Contagion. -- Infection is often used in a definite and limited sense of the transmission of affections without direct contact of individuals or immediate application or introduction of the morbific agent, in contradistinction to contagion, which then implies transmission by direct contact. Quain. See Contagious.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

infection

in fec tion |inˈfekSHən ɪnˈfɛkʃən | ▶noun the process of infecting or the state of being infected: strict hygiene will limit the risk of infection. • an infectious disease: a chest infection. • Computing the presence of a virus in, or its introduction into, a computer system. ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin infectio (n- ), from Latin inficere ‘dip in, taint ’ (see infect ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

infection

in |fec ¦tion |ɪnˈfɛkʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the process of infecting or the state of being infected: strict hygiene will limit the risk of infection | a reddening of the skin at the site of infection. • [ count noun ] an infectious disease: a chest infection. • Computing the presence of a virus in, or its introduction into, a computer system. ORIGIN late Middle English: from late Latin infectio (n- ), from Latin inficere ‘dip in, taint ’ (see infect ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

infection

infection noun a treatable skin infection: disease, virus; disorder, condition, affliction, complaint, illness, ailment, sickness, infirmity; contamination, poison, septicemia, suppuration; informal bug; dated contagion; Medicine sepsis.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

infection

infection noun 1 she was treated for a kidney infection: disease, virus, contagion; disorder, condition, affliction, problem, complaint, illness, ailment, sickness, infirmity, indisposition; informal bug; Brit. informal lurgy. 2 an attempt to reduce the infection in his head wounds: contamination, poison; septicity, septicaemia, ulceration, suppuration, inflammation; germs, bacteria, microbes; technical sepsis.

 

French Dictionary

infection

infection n. f. nom féminin Contamination par des agents pathogènes. Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le nom affection, maladie. Le cancer est une grave affection, mais il ne comporte pas d ’infection. Foyer d ’infection. Lieu d ’où se propage une infection. : Ces amoncellements de déchets sont autant de foyers (et non *sites ) d ’infection.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

infection

in fec tion /ɪnfékʃ (ə )n /→infect 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C 伝染病 , 感染症 ▸ die from an infection 伝染病で死ぬ ▸ The cough is due to an infection .そのせきは感染症が原因である .2 U 感染, 汚染 ▸ avoid [cause, fight, prevent ] infection 感染を避ける [を起こす, と闘う, を防ぐ ]▸ patients with HIV infection HIVに感染した患者 ▸ the risk [spread ] of infection 感染の危険 [蔓 （まん ）延 ].3 U 影響 ; 感化 .