infection

From Old French infection, from Vulgar Latin *infectiō.

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

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.

• spurious infection

• infect
• infected
• infectable

From Old French infection, from Late Latin infectiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃/

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infection f (plural infections)

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

   Synonyms: puanteur, pestilence

• “infection” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

infection (plural infectiones)

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

Borrowed from Latin *infectiō.

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