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. 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. Marieke Degen:

   R must always be seen in context, if you have low infection numbers in total -- in Germany [ Robert Koch Institute's ] some hundreds per day -- and some larger outbreaks, R can rise quite quickly, but this is not that problematic.

2. Celine Gounder:

   Measles is also pneumonia, brain infection, it's the leading cause of childhood blindness in the world, if you want to do something natural, vaccination is far more natural than if your child ends up on a ventilator or needing antibiotics or if they end up with a brain infection so if you are trying to balance what's the most natural way to take care of your child, I would say measles vaccine is pretty high up there.

3. Anne Schuchat:

   So, women who are pregnant and get COVID have worse experiences with the infection than do non-pregnant women, with more time in the ICU, more risk of severe outcome including those rare deaths.

4. Akiko Iwasaki:

   That approach we have shown in the mouse model to be 100 % protective against lethal dose of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and it dramatically reduces the viral load in the nose and in the lung.

5. Rob Murphy:

   The unfortunate thing for transmitting disease is that right when the infection takes off, just before a person becomes symptomatic, they probably have the highest level [ of virus ], so, the day they start having symptoms, and the day before and maybe the day before that is when they have the highest viral load.

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