# infection
## English
### Etymology

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

infection (countable and uncountable, plural infections)
* (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
* An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
** 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.
* A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
    Coordinate term: colonization (subclinical or commensal)
** 1944, Cedric C. Carpenter, “Failure of penicillin to prevent syphilis”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin‎, volume 43, number 2, pages 389–390:As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
** 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader‎:And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
** 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
* 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

* agroinfection
* antiinfection
* anti-infection
* autoinfection
* bladder infection
* coinfection
* cross-infection
* disinfection
* hydrofection
* hyperinfection
* infectiology
* infectional
* infectionism
* infectionist
* lytic infection
* microinfection
* monoinfection
* neuroinfection
* noninfection
* opportunistic infection
* parainfection
* postinfection
* preinfection
* pseudoinfection
* reinfection
* retroinfection
* secondary infection
* self-infection
* sexually transmitted infection
* spinfection
* spurious infection
* subinfection
* superinfection
* suprainfection
* toxicoinfection
* transfection
* transinfection
* urinary tract infection
* urinary-tract infection
* Vincent's infection
* xenoinfection
* yeast infection

#### Related terms

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

#### Translations
### See also

* exfection

## French
### Etymology

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.fɛk.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

infection f (plural infections)
* (pathology) infection
* (informal) stench, stink
    Synonyms: puanteur, pestilence

#### Derived terms

* infectieux
* infectiologue

#### Descendants

* → Turkish: enfeksiyon

### Further reading

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

## Interlingua
### Noun

infection (plural infectiones)
* (pathology) The act or process of infecting.

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnfectiō.

### Noun

infection oblique singular, f (oblique plural infections, nominative singular infection, nominative plural infections)
* (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 corpsthe infection travels around the whole body