Infective Synonyms

ĭn-fĕktĭv
Able to cause disease
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. pathogenic
  2. infectious
  3. morbific

Words Related to Infective

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. infectivity
  2. staphylococcal
  3. clostridial
  4. Cryptosporidia
  5. inapparent
  6. enteric
  7. astrovirus

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.

  • 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.

  • The parasitic hypothesis postulates the invasion of a parasite from without, thus making a new growth an infective process.

  • Hyaline degeneration is found in certain acute infective conditions; the toxins specially act on these connective-tissue cell elements.

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