non-infectiousadj.
/ˌnɒnɪnˈfɛkʃəs/, U.S. /ˌnɑnᵻnˈfɛkʃəs/ Not caused by or associated with infection or an infectious agent; not transmissible or communicable; (also) not capable of causing infection.
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uninfectious1744
uncontagious1822
non-contagious1825
non-infectious1850
non-infective1875
1850 E. E. Marcy Homœopathic Theory & Pract. Med. 485 The great majority of those intractable ulcers..are nothing more, primarily, than simple non-infectious sores.
1889 Science 15 Mar. 199/1 The very large mortality from non-infectious disease, under five years of age, is, in the light of our present knowledge, no longer tolerable.
1923 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 10 192 The relation of mosaic diseases to infectious or non-infectious ‘natural’ variegation..of foliage plants also remains for detailed study.
1956 Nature 21 Jan. 131/1 The purified protein alone was found to be non-infectious.
1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 3421/2 Some intracellular virus-specific DNA sequences could have been synthesized by noninfectious virus particles.
1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 545/1 In one study of non-infectious colitis in infancy all eight patients had an allergic colitis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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