Antonyms for infection
ɪnˈfɛk ʃənin·fec·tion

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1. infection

   Infection is frequently confused with contagion, even by medical men. The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental.

   Synonyms:
   contagion

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1. infection

   Antonyms:
   purification, disinfection, antidote

   Synonyms:
   taint, poison, contamination, corruption, contagion

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1. • Communication
   • Corruption
   • Ill Health
   • Illegality
   • Incident
   • Law
   • Linguistic Process
   • Medicine
   • Pathologic Process
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1. infectionnoun

   the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

2. infectionnoun

   (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

3. infectionnoun

   (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

4. infection, contagion, transmissionnoun

   an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagious disease, transmittance, contagion, transmittal, transmitting, transmission system

5. contagion, infectionnoun

   the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

   "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"

   Synonyms:
   transmission, contagion, contagious disease

6. infectionnoun

   moral corruption or contamination

   "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

7. infectionnoun

   (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

   Synonyms:
   contagion, transmission

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1. infectionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contagion, contamination, vitiation, pollution

How to use infection in a sentence?

1. Nia Heard-Garris:

   The problem here is systemic racism and disregard for black lives, and so as a doctor, I don't just treat a patient that has a fever when they have a bacterial infection, right ?

2. Amy Johnson:

   I'm not going to knock on their door and tell their wife or their husband they have a sexually transmitted infection, it's important for people on the individual level to know it's about community health.

3. Amesh Adalja:

   In an outbreak your really have to interpret fatality rates with a very skeptical eye, because often it's only the very severe cases that are coming to people's attention, it's very hard to say those numbers represent anything like the true burden of infection.

4. Abu Jayyab:

   We take to the sea engulfed with fears of infection. In the past, the water was better.

5. Keith Noll:

   We know that the news of this potential risk of infection may be concerning to our open-heart patients, and we sincerely regret any distress that it may create for those patients and their families.

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