infection
Definitions
noun
The act or process of infecting.
An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.