infection

English

Etymology

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

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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^[1], 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

• 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

the process of infecting

• Afrikaans: infekteer
• Albanian: infektim (sq) m, infeksion (sq) m
• Arabic: عَدَوَى (ʕadawā)
• Armenian: վարակում (hy) (varakum)
• Azerbaijani: infeksiya, yoluxma, yoluxdurma, sirayət
• Belarusian: інфе́кцыя f (infjékcyja), інфэ́кцыя f (infékcyja), заражэ́нне n (zaražénnje)
• Bulgarian: заразя́ване (bg) f (zarazjávane), инфе́кция (bg) f (infékcija)
• Catalan: infecció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 傳染／传染 (cyun⁴ jim⁵)

  Mandarin: 傳染／传染 (zh) (chuánrǎn)

• Czech: infekce (cs) f, nákaza (cs) f
• Danish: infektion c
• Dutch: infectie (nl) f, infectering f
• Estonian: infektsioon
• 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 / זִהוּם (he) m (zihum)
• Hungarian: fertőzés (hu), megfertőzés (hu)
• Icelandic: sýking (is) f, smitun 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 (infeksiä), жұқтыру (jūqtyru)
• Korean: 감염(感染) (ko) (gamyeom), 전염(傳染) (ko) (jeonyeom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tûşbûn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: инфекция (ky) (infektsiya)
• Latvian: infekcija f
• Lithuanian: užkrėtimas m, infekcija (lt) f
• Macedonian: инфекција f (infekcija), зараза f (zaraza)
• Malay: jangkitan (ms)
• Maori: whakapokenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infeksjon (no) m

• Occitan: infeccion (oc) f
• Persian: عُفونَت (fa) ('ofunat), پوسیدن (fa) (pūsidan) (classic), گندگی (fa) sg (gandagi), پوده (fa) sg (pūde) (archaic)
• Polish: infekcja (pl) f, zakażenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: infecção (pt) f, infeccionamento m
• Romanian: infectare (ro) f
• Russian: инфе́кция (ru) f (infékcija), зараже́ние (ru) n (zaražénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за̑раза f, заражење n

  Roman: zȃraza (sh) f, zaraženje n

• Slovak: infekcia f, nákaza f
• Slovene: okuženje n, infekcija f
• Spanish: infección (es)
• Swedish: infektion (sv) c
• Tagalog: hawa
• Tajik: инфектсия (infektsiya), гирифтор (giriftor), уфунат (ufunat)
• Thai: การติดเชื้อ (th) (gaan-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa)
• Turkish: enfeksiyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфе́кція f (infékcija), зараже́ння n (zaražénnja), закаже́ння n (zakažénnja)
• Uzbek: infeksiya (uz)
• 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: infeksion (sq) m
• Arabic: عَدْوَى (ʕadwā)
• Armenian: ինֆեկցիա (hy) (infekcʻia), վարակ (hy) (varak)
• Aymara: añata
• Azerbaijani: infeksiya
• Basque: infekzio
• Belarusian: інфе́кцыя f (infjékcyja), інфэ́кцыя f (infékcyja), зара́за f (zaráza)
• Bengali: সংক্রমণ (bn) (śoṅkromon)
• Bulgarian: инфе́кция (bg) f (infékcija), зара́за (bg) f (zaráza)
• Catalan: infecció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 感染 (gam² jim⁵)

  Mandarin: 感染 (zh) (gǎnrǎn)

• Czech: infekce (cs) f, nákaza (cs) f
• Danish: infektion c
• Dutch: infectie (nl) f
• Esperanto: infekto
• Estonian: nakkus, infektsioon
• 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), μόλυνση (el) f (mólynsi)
• Hebrew: זיהום / זִהוּם (he) m (zihum), נֶגַע (he) m (néga')
• Hindi: संक्रमण (hi) m (saṅkramaṇ)
• Hungarian: fertőzés (hu), fertőződés (hu), megfertőződés
• Icelandic: sýking (is) f
• Irish: galar (ga) m
• Italian: infezione (it) f
• Japanese: 感染 (ja) (かんせん, kansen)
• Kazakh: инфекция (infeksiä), жұқпа (jūqpa)
• Khmer: ដំបៅក្លាយ (dɑmbaw klaay)
• Korean: 감염(感染) (ko) (gamyeom)
• Kyrgyz: инфекция (ky) (infektsiya)
• Lao: ການຕິດແປດພະຍາດ (kān tit pǣt pha nyāt), ພິດ (phit), ຝີ (fī), ການຕິດເຊື້ອ (kān tit sư̄a)
• Latin: infectio f
• Latvian: infekcija f
• Lithuanian: infekcija (lt) f
• Macedonian: инфекција f (infekcija), зараза f (zaraza)
• Maori: pokenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халдвар (mn) (xaldvar)

• Navajo: iiʼnótʼį́į́, iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: infeksjon (no) m

• Occitan: infeccion (oc) f
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: عُفونَت (fa) ('ofunat)
• Plautdietsch: Aunstekjunk f
• Polish: zakażenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: infecção (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: infecție (ro) f
• 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

• Slovak: infekcia f, nákaza f
• Slovene: okužba (sl) f, infekcija f
• Spanish: infección (es) f
• Swedish: infektion (sv) c
• Tagalog: hawa, pagkakahawa
• Tajik: инфектсия (infektsiya), уфунат (ufunat)
• Thai: การติดเชื้อ (th) (gaan-dtìt-chʉ́ʉa)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: enfeksiyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: інфе́кція f (infékcija), зара́за f (zaráza)
• Uzbek: infeksiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự nhiễm trùng (vi) (事染蟲), sự lây nhiễm (事唻染)
• Welsh: heintiad m
• Yiddish: אינפֿעקציע f (infektsye)

disease

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

visible sign

See also

• exfection

French

Etymology

From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiōnem.

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
• 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)

1. (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)

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