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Disinfect :: Disinfect (v. t.) To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.

Microzyme :: Microzyme (n.) A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

Leperous :: Leperous (a.) Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous.

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Pestiferous :: Pestiferous (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies..

Smittlish :: Smittlish (a.) Infectious; catching.

Alexiteric :: Alexiteric (n.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general..

Microorganism :: Microorganism (n.) Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases..

Catching :: Catching (a.) Infectious; contagious.

Pathogene :: Pathogene (n.) One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene..

Fomes :: Fomes (n.) Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites..

Zymosis :: Zymosis (n.) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed..

Taking :: Taking (a.) Infectious; contageous.

Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Microphyte :: Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be..

Infectiousness :: Infectiousness (n.) The quality of being infectious.

Reinfectious :: Reinfectious (a.) Capable of reinfecting.

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating..

Infectiously :: Infectiously (adv.) In an infectious manner.

Mumps :: Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

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