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INFECTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to cause disease
Example:
pathogenic bacteria
Synonyms:
infective; morbific; pathogenic
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthful (detrimental to good health)
Derivation:
infect (contaminate with a disease or microorganism)
infect (communicate a disease to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Caused by infection or capable of causing infection
Example:
a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease
Synonyms:
infectious; infective
Classified under:
Similar:
infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
Derivation:
infect (contaminate with a disease or microorganism)
infect (communicate a disease to)
Context examples:
A capsule containing a fermented soymilk extract and oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs), green tea, spirullina, curcumin and antrodia camphorate powder, with potential antioxidant, immunomodulating, anti-infective and anti-cancer activities.
(OPCs/Green Tea/Spirullina/Curcumin/Antrodia Camphorate/Fermented Soymilk Extract Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)
Orbiviruses are infective in a wide range of arthropod and vertebrate hosts and primarily cause disease in animals.
(Orbivirus, NCI Thesaurus)
MVP puts you at risk for infective endocarditis, a kind of heart infection.
(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
This dietary supplement may exhbit anti-infective activity in immunocompromised patients.
(Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, NCI Thesaurus)
The garlic plant has long been considered a beneficial plant for health and has been used as an antihelmintic, a rubefacient, an anti-infective, and an antihypertensive.
(Garlic Extract, NCI Thesaurus)
Endocarditis, also called infective endocarditis (IE), is an inflammation of the inner lining of the heart.
(Endocarditis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Camphor is used in topical anti-infective and anti-pruritic (anti-itching) agents.
(Camphor, NCI Dictionary)
Uses include solvents, astringents, and anti-infective activity.
(Alcohol [Chemical Class], NCI Thesaurus)
G. elegans is commensal, being found in normal human oral flora, but may be associated with infective endocarditis.
(Granulicatella elegans, NCI Thesaurus)
In pneumonic plague, the infection spreads to the lungs either following bubonic plague, or by inhalation of infective droplets.
(Plague, NCI Thesaurus)
