infection

infection

English

Etymology

From Old French infection, from Vulgar Latin *infectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

• Audio (RP)

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Noun

infection (countable and uncountable, plural infections)

1. (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
2. An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     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 a pathogen.
4. A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.

Hyponyms

• See: List of infectious diseases; Category:Infectious diseases

Derived terms

• spurious infection

Related terms

• infect, infected, infectable, infectious disease, infection prevention and control (infection control), infective

Translations

the process of infecting

Arabic: عَدَوَى‎ (ʿadawā) Armenian: վարակում (hy) (varakum) Belarusian: інфе́кцыя f (infjékcyja), заражэ́нне n (zaražénnje) Bulgarian: заразяване (bg) f (zarazjavane) Catalan: infecció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 傳染／传染 (zh) (chuánrǎn) Czech: infekce (cs) f, nákaza (cs) f Dutch: infectie (nl) f, infectering f Finnish: tarttuminen (fi) French: infection (fr) f Galician: infección (gl) f Georgian: ინფექცია (inpekcia), ინფიცირება (inpicireba), დასნებოვნება (dasnebovneba), დასენიანება (dasenianeba) German: Ansteckung (de) f, Infektion (de) f Hebrew: זיהום‎ (he) m (zihum) Hungarian: fertőzés (hu), megfertőzés Icelandic: sýking (is) f Indonesian: infeksi (id) Interlingua: infection f Irish: galrú m Italian: infezione (it) Japanese: 伝染 (ja) (でんせん, densen) Kazakh: жұқпа (jūqpa), инфекция (kk) (infeksiä) Korean: 감염(感染) (ko) (gamyeom) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: tûşbûn (ku) Malay: jangkitan (ms) Occitan: infeccion (oc) f Persian: عفونت‎ (fa) ('ofunat), پوسیدن‎ (fa) (pusidan) Polish: infekcja (pl) f, zakażenie (pl) n Portuguese: infecção (pt) f, infeccionamento m Romanian: infectare (ro) Russian: инфе́кция (ru) f (infékcija), зараже́ние (ru) n (zaražénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: за̑раза f, заражење n Roman: zȃraza (sh) f, zaraženje n Spanish: infección (es) Tagalog: hawa Thai: การติดเชื้อ (th) (gaan-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa) Turkish: enfeksiyon (tr) Ukrainian: інфе́кція f (infékcija), зараже́ння n (zaražénnja), закаже́ння n (zakažénnja) Vietnamese: sự nhiễm trùng (vi) (事染蟲), sự lây nhiễm (事唻染)

uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host

Afrikaans: infeksie Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: عَدْوَى‎ (ʿadwā) Armenian: ինֆեկցիա (hy) (infekcʿia), վարակ (hy) (varak) Aymara: añata Basque: infekzio Belarusian: інфе́кцыя f (infjékcyja), зара́за f (zaráza) Bulgarian: инфе́кция (bg) f (infékcija), зара́за (bg) f (zaráza) Catalan: infecció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 感染 (zh) (gǎnrǎn) Czech: infekce (cs) f, nákaza (cs) f Danish: infektion f Dutch: infectie (nl) f Esperanto: infekto Estonian: nakkus Finnish: tartunta (fi), infektio (fi) French: infection (fr) f Galician: infección (gl) f Georgian: ინფექცია (inpekcia), ინფექციური დაავადება (inpekciuri daavadeba) German: Infektion (de) f Greek: λοίμωξη (el) f (loímoxi) Hebrew: זיהום‎ (he) m (zihum), נֶגַע‎ (he) m (néga') Hindi: संक्रमण (hi) n (saṅkramaṇ) Hungarian: fertőzés (hu), fertőződés, megfertőződés Icelandic: sýking (is) f Irish: galar (ga) m Italian: infezione (it) f Japanese: 感化 (ja) (かんか, kanka), 感染 (ja) (かんせん, kansen) Khmer: ដំបៅក្លាយ (dɑmbav klaay), ជំងឺបង្កដោយមេរោគ (cumŋɨɨ bɑŋkɑɑ daoy mee rook) Korean: 감염(感染) (ko) (gamyeom) Lao: ການຕິດແປດພະຍາດ (kān tit pǣt pha nyāt), ພິດ (phit), ຝີ (fī), ການຕິດເຊື້ອ (kān tit sư̄a) Latin: infectio f Latvian: infekcija f Mongolian: халдвар (mn) (xaldvar) Navajo: iiʼnótʼį́į́, iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ Norwegian: infeksjon (no) m Occitan: infeccion (oc) f Oriya: please add this translation if you can Persian: عفونت‎ (fa) (ofunat) Plautdietsch: Aunstekjunk f Polish: zakażenie (pl) n Portuguese: infecção (pt) f Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: infecție (ro) Russian: инфе́кция (ru) f (infékcija), зара́за (ru) f (zaráza) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: инфѐкција f, за̑раза f, заражење n Roman: infèkcija (sh) f, zȃraza (sh) f, zaraženje n Spanish: infección (es) f Swedish: infektion (sv) Tagalog: hawa Thai: การติดเชื้อ (th) (gaan-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: enfeksiyon (tr) Ukrainian: інфе́кція f (infékcija), зара́за f (zaráza) Vietnamese: sự nhiễm trùng (vi) (事染蟲), sự lây nhiễm (事唻染) Welsh: heintiad m Yiddish: אינפֿעקציע‎ f (infektsye)

disease

Finnish: tartuntatauti (fi), tarttuva tauti Hungarian: fertőzés (hu), hurut (hu), ragály (hu)

visible sign

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French

Etymology

From Old French infection, from Late Latin infectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

infection f (plural infections)

1. (pathology) infection
2. (informal) stench, stink

   Synonyms: puanteur, pestilence

Derived terms

• infectieux

Descendants

• → Turkish: enfeksiyon

Further reading

• “infection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingua

Noun

infection (plural infectiones)

1. (pathology) The act or process of infecting.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin *infectiō.

Noun

infection f (oblique plural infections, nominative singular infection, nominative plural infections)

1. (countable) infection.
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 172 of this essay:

     la infection va tantost par tout le corps

     the infection travels around the whole body