infection
INVASION OF AND MULTIPLICATION IN A HOST BY DISEASE-CAUSING PATHOGENS OR ORGANISMS, AND THE REACTION OF HOST TISSUES
Infectious disease; Infectious diseases; Infectious; Communicable disease; Infections; Infectious Disease; Infect; Secondary infection; Contagious diseases; Wound colonization; Bacterial Infections; Anti-infective; Anti-infectives; Communicable diseases; Infectious Diseases; Latent infection; Infecting; Local infection; Definition to contagious; Wound infection; Antiinfective; Primary infection; Acute infection; AIDS-related bacterial infections; AIDS-related viral infections; Symptomatic infection; Infective; Communicable Diseases; Persistent infection
n.
1) to pass on, spread, transmit (an) infection
2) a latent; localized; primary; secondary; serious, severe; slight, superficial; systemic infection