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INFEC'TION, n. [L. inficio.] The act of infecting, or the act by which poisonous matter, morbid miasmata or exhalations produce disease in a healthy body. The words contagion and infection are frequently confounded. The proper distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the specific disease in a healthy body by contact or otherwise. Marsh miasm is not properly contagion. Infection is any thing that taints or corrupts; hence it includes contagion, and any other morbid, noxious matter which may excite disease in a healthy body. Hence,

1. The morbid cause which excites disease in a healthy or uninfected body. This cause may be contagion from a diseased body, or other poisonous or noxious matter received into the body or under the skin. The infection of the plague and of yellow fever, is said to be imported in ships and conveyed in clothing; persons are said to take the infection from a diseased person, or from the air of apartments where the sick are confined. The infection spreads in a city, or it is free from infection. Pestilential exhalations are called infections.

Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred.

2. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as the infection of error or of evil example.

3. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.

4. Communication of like qualities.

Mankind are gay or serious by infection.


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INFEC'TION, n. [L. inficio.] The act of infecting, or the act by which poisonous matter, morbid miasmata or exhalations produce disease in a healthy body. The words contagion and infection are frequently confounded. The proper distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the specific disease in a healthy body by contact or otherwise. Marsh miasm is not properly contagion. Infection is any thing that taints or corrupts; hence it includes contagion, and any other morbid, noxious matter which may excite disease in a healthy body. Hence,

1. The morbid cause which excites disease in a healthy or uninfected body. This cause may be contagion from a diseased body, or other poisonous or noxious matter received into the body or under the skin. The infection of the plague and of yellow fever, is said to be imported in ships and conveyed in clothing; persons are said to take the infection from a diseased person, or from the air of apartments where the sick are confined. The infection spreads in a city, or it is free from infection. Pestilential exhalations are called infections.

Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred.

2. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as the infection of error or of evil example.

3. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.

4. Communication of like qualities.

Mankind are gay or serious by infection.

IN-FEC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. inficio.]

  1. The act or process of infecting.
  2. The thing which infects. In medicine, the terms infection and contagion are used as synonymous in a great majority of cases. Different writers proposed and attempted to make a distinction between them, but there has been a great disagreement as to what the distinction should be; and in general no regard is paid to the proposed distinctions. Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which diseases is transferred. – Cyc.
  3. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as, the infection of error or of evil example.
  4. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.
  5. Communication of like qualities. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. – Rambler.

In*fec"tion
  1. 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.

  2. That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.

    And that which was still worse, they that did thus break out spread the infection further by their wandering about with the distemper upon them. De Foe.

  3. The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.

    The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

  4. That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.

    It was her chance to light
    Amidst the gross infections of those times.     Daniel.

  5. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
  6. Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.

    Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope.

    Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.

    Syn. -- Infection, Contagion. -- Infection is often used in a definite and limited sense of the transmission of affections without direct contact of individuals or immediate application or introduction of the morbific agent, in contradistinction to contagion, which then implies transmission by direct contact. Quain. See Contagious.

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Infection

INFEC'TION, noun [Latin inficio.] The act of infecting, or the act by which poisonous matter, morbid miasmata or exhalations produce disease in a healthy body. The words contagion and infection are frequently confounded. The proper distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the specific disease in a healthy body by contact or otherwise. Marsh miasm is not properly contagion. infection is any thing that taints or corrupts; hence it includes contagion, and any other morbid, noxious matter which may excite disease in a healthy body. Hence,

1. The morbid cause which excites disease in a healthy or uninfected body. This cause may be contagion from a diseased body, or other poisonous or noxious matter received into the body or under the skin. The infection of the plague and of yellow fever, is said to be imported in ships and conveyed in clothing; persons are said to take the infection from a diseased person, or from the air of apartments where the sick are confined. The infection spreads in a city, or it is free from infection Pestilential exhalations are called infections.

Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred.

2. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as the infection of error or of evil example.

3. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.

4. Communication of like qualities.

Mankind are gay or serious by infection

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