infectionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/us/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/infection noun [ C or U ] (DISEASE)
B2 a disease in a part of your body that is caused by bacteria or a virus:
a serious infection
a throat infection
Bandage the wound to reduce the risk of infection.
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- The breathing problem has now been complicated by a chest infection.
- White blood cells help defend the body against infection.
- He's on antibiotics for an ear infection.
- They tested her blood for signs of the infection.
- If the infection is not checked it will probably spread to the upper body.
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Bacteria, moulds, germs & viruses
- adenovirus
- antimicrobial
- bacteriology
- bacteriophage
- C. difficile
- E. coli
- fungal
- fungoid
- fungus
- germ
- HIV-positive
- listeria
- microbe
- microorganism
- mould
- organism
- probiotic
- shitake mushroom
- taenia
- West Nile virus
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Passing on illness & causing disease
infection noun [ C or U ] (COMPUTERS)
an act of passing harmful programs into a computer or file, or the harmful programs themselves:
You only have to open an attachment to pass the infection from computer to computer.
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Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- alpha
- analytics
- CD-RW
- compile
- killer app
- lisp
- LMS
- low-level language
- macro
- mashup
- patch
- procedure
- shortcut
- systems analyst
- virtual memory
- worm
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Computer concepts