[
UK
/ɪnfˈɛktɪd/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɛktɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfɛktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
a septic environment
septic sewage
a septic sore throat
How To Use infected In A Sentence
- Indeed, purified antigen-specific B lymphocytes from HIV-1-infected patients can be activated invitro by HIV-1 antigens to secrete cytokines and immunoglobulins.
- Patients with primary infection tend to be clinically ‘sicker’ than those who are reinfected.
- The drug will be useful to hundreds of thousands of infected people.
- He infected mice and rabbits with Trypanosoma gondii, the parasite responsible for the dreaded sleeping sickness, then injected the animals with chemical derivatives to determine if any of them could halt the infection. The Emperor of All Maladies
- What if a hijacked plane hit a nuclear power plant, what if bioterrorists infected burger bars, what if we were flooded with smallpox?
- Note also the profound hypochondriasis and fear that they are being infected by a "cancer"--again, a plot presumably put together by the Jews. Archive 2009-02-01
- According to health experts, when an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood.
- A person can be recently infected by HIV and have a negative result.
- Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread to humans by infected ticks. The Sun
- It got infected, then turned into a diabetic ulcer. The Sun