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Infective   /ɪnfˈɛktɪv/   Listen
Infective

adjective
1.
Able to cause disease.  Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic.  "Pathogenic bacteria"
2.
Caused by infection or capable of causing infection.  Synonym: infectious.  "A carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease"



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"Infective" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the air from the lungs of the sick to be implanted in the lungs of the healthy. The germs may remain for a time in the dust turn and debris of damp, filthy, and overcrowded houses. In this congenial soil they retain their vitality for a long time, and possibly may take on more virulent infective properties than they possessed when ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell


Words linked to "Infective" :   infected, highly infective, septic, unhealthful, infect, infectious, pathogenic, infective agent, morbific


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