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Infected. Cf. Enfect. [Obs.] Shak.

One who, or that which, infects.

Capable of being infected.

The act or process of infecting. There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

In an infectious manner. Shak.

The quality of being infectious.

Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.

To infect again.

Capable of reinfecting.

A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic (#), a.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

ry hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while th…