infection
- noun
- /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
- Specialized
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asimilación
- One can observe infection in accents where certain vowel sounds affect the articulation of nearby consonants.
Examples
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Thus, love is constantly put into the somatic language of disease, and the language used to describe both, language produced by textual infection, can be said to be diseased as well.
Academic text (1999) -
In phonetics, an example of infection is when the sound of a consonant is altered by the neighboring vowel sounds.
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The concept of infection can be illustrated by how the pronunciation of words may change based on surrounding sounds.
Synonyms
1
6.8
A sound change where one sound becomes like a nearby sound when speaking
Compounds
- Specialized
9
2.8
An illness caused when a virus gets into your body and makes you sick
- Specialized
8
3.7
A sickness in the parts that make and hold urine, like the kidneys or bladder, caused by germs
- Specialized
5
3.1
An illness a fungus causes in the body, often on the skin or nails
- Specialized
2
4.9
An infection caused by germs that rarely make healthy people sick but do when the immune system is weak
- Specialized
1
4.1
A sickness of the parts used for breathing, like the nose and lungs, that causes cough and breathing problems
- Specialized
1
5.3
A skin or wound illness caused by bacteria that makes pus and painful lumps
- Specialized
The percentage of infections that become known as cases
An infection a patient gets in a hospital from another person or things there
- Specialized
An infection that causes symptoms like dengue fever but is not caused by the dengue virus
- Specialized
Germs cause an ear problem, often in the outer ear, that makes the ear painful and swollen
- Specialized
A group of harmful bacteria in one part of the body that causes problems in other parts
- Specialized
An infection in the lungs or large airways that causes cough and fever
- Specialized
An infection caught in a hospital or clinic that was not there before you arrived
- Specialized
An illness caused by tiny single-celled germs that live in the body
An infection in the intestines caused by a tapeworm from undercooked meat or fish
- Archaic
A painful contagious infection of the mouth and throat that makes sores inside the mouth
How Altered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Infection comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and -fect 'make', originally meaning to 'put into' or 'taint'. In phonetics, an infection is when one sound 'changes' a nearby sound because it has 'put' some of its quality into it, so the old idea of 'putting into' explains the sound change.