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Infective

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Capable of producing infection; infectious.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Able to cause infection; infectious

n. A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Infectious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of a nature to infect or affect injuriously; injurious.

Infectious; tending to communicate or spread, or capable of communicating, infection.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. able to cause disease

adj. caused by infection or capable of causing infection

Word Usage

"Patients with congenital heart defects of the valve or those who have valvular replacements of the heart need to take a relatively high dosage of antibiotics before dental treatment to prevent occurrence of a heart disease known as infective endocarditis."

Equivalent

unhealthful septic infected

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

infectious

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

affective anti-infective collective connective convective

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

free-swimming non-infective granulomatous rheumatoid incapacitate