infective
[in-fek-tiv]
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Origin of infective
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Related Words for infective
toxic, contagious, virulent, deadly, destructive, fatal, malignant, pernicious, noxious, dangerous, vicious, lethal, venomous, endemic, taking, pandemic, epidemic, bad, evil, poisonExamples from the Web for infective
Historical Examples of infective
Is not this the way that infective diseases have appeared on the earth from age to age?
Experiments on AnimalsStephen Paget
It was no new thing to say, or to guess, that phthisis was or might be infective.
Experiments on AnimalsStephen Paget
As with typhoid, so with Malta fever, cholera, and some other infective diseases.
Experiments on AnimalsStephen Paget
But morbus pauperum is not the only principle of infective disease.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)Charles Creighton
Nor does the blood imbibed by the flea cease to be infective when it passes from the stomach.
The FleaHarold Russell
infective
- capable of causing infection
- a less common word for infectious
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for infective
late 14c., from Latin infectivus, from infectus (see infect).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
infective
(ĭn-fĕk′tĭv)- Capable of producing infection; infectious.
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