infectious
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
infectious/ɪnˈfekʃəs/
▶adjective
- 1 (of a disease or disease-causing organism) liable to be transmitted through the environment.
■ liable to spread infection.
- 2 likely to spread to or influence others: her enthusiasm is infectious.
– derivatives
infectiously adverb,
infectiousness noun.
infectiously adverb,
infectiousness noun.
'infectious' also found in these Oxford entries:
bill of health
- bioterrorism
- catching
- chickenpox
- cholera
- communicate
- Ebola fever
- epidemic
- fowl plague
- glandular fever
- incubate
- infection
- lazaretto
- leptospirosis
- measles
- murrain
- myxomatosis
- Newcastle disease
- non-infectious
- notifiable
- orf
- parotitis
- pest-house
- pestilential
- poliomyelitis
- poxvirus
- Q fever
- relapsing fever
- rinderpest
- roup
- scarlet fever
- swine vesicular disease
- tuberculosis
- tularaemia
- typhoid
- typhus
- viroid
