infection

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An illness caused by harmful germs entering the body.

   She took antibiotics to fight a chest infection.

2. 2
   noun

   The process of a disease being passed to or spreading inside the body.

   Washing your hands helps prevent the infection of others.

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion.

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