See Also: infectious(dictionary)
Infectious(medicine)
infectious(dictionary)
mononucleosis, infectious(encyclopedia)
infectious icterus(medicine)
infectious hepatitis(medicine)
infectious serositis(medicine)
infectious granuloma(medicine)
infectious enterohepatitis(medicine)
infectious disease(medicine)

infectious (iou)



infectious adjective. M16.
[from INFECTION + -OUS. Cf. INFECTUOUS.]
Able to cause disease, unhealthy, infecting. M16.
infectious hepatitis, infectious mononucleosis, infectious parotitis, etc.
Of (a) disease: communicable; liable to be transmitted from one person to another by transfer of micro-organisms. Also, (of a person) infected, liable to infect others. M16.
Affected with disease. M16-E18.
Tending or liable to contaminate character, morals, etc. Now rare. M16.
Of an action, emotion, etc.: having the quality of spreading from one to another; easily communicable. E17.
E. Phillpotts Her volubility was infectious They talked one against the other.
Law (now Hist.). Of contraband etc.: rendering the rest of a cargo or the ship liable to seizure. L19.
infectiously adverb E17.
infectiousness noun E17.