- Communicable disease
- Contagion
- The act or process of infecting.
- That which infects, or causes the communicated disease;
any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious
disease is caused.
- The state of being infected; contamination by morbific
particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease;
epidemic.
- That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection
of vicious principles.
- Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband
goods; implication.