Infective definition

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Capable of producing infection; infectious.
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Likely to cause infection; infectious.
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Capable of producing infection; infectious.
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Able to cause infection; infectious.
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(epidemiology) A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others.
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Noun

Singular:
infective
Plural:
infectives

Origin of infective

  • infect +‎ -ive

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Infective Sentence Examples

  • In the case of the latter animal the serum infective conditions led Metchnikoff to place great p g importance on phagocytosis.

  • In Taiwan a strain exists that is not infective to man.

  • However, they remain infective in water or moist soil for about one year.

  • At body temperature, the eggs develop quickly and are infective in about six hours.

  • In some of the infective conditions the conflict fortifies the organism against future attacks of the same nature, as for example in the immunity following many of the acute infective diseases.

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