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Infection :: Infection (n.) The act or process of infecting.

Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.

Disinfecting :: Disinfecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disinfec.

Taint :: Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..

Avignon Berry :: Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry..

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

Itchy :: Itchy (a.) Infected with the itch, or with an itching sensation..

Impest :: Impest (v. t.) To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague..

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

Mangy :: Mangy (superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.

Germicide :: Germicide (a.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases..

Measly :: Measly (a.) Infected with measles.

Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc., by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation..

Reinfectious :: Reinfectious (a.) Capable of reinfecting.

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..

Infecting :: Infecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infec.

Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

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