AUTOINFECTION

  

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AUTOINFECTION

Specialty Definition: AUTOINFECTION

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Infection by an agent already present in the body. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: AUTOINFECTION

Synonym by domain: auto-infection (medicine).

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Non-Fiction Usage: AUTOINFECTION

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Health

Intestinal capillariasis (caused by C. philippinensis) manifests as abdominal pain and diarrhea, which, if untreated, may become severe because of autoinfection. (references)

Autoinfection may produce heavy infections and severe disease, especially in patients with reduced immunity such as those receiving corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive drug treatment. (references)

This modification of the life cycle, called internal autoinfection, explains persistent strongyloidiasis, as long as 40 years in patients who have moved to areas where the disease is not generally found. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AUTOINFECTION

Language Translations for "AUTOINFECTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

autoinfektion (auto-infection, self-infection), selvinfektion (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

auto-infectie (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

French

  

auto-infection (auto-infection). (various references)

   

German

  

Autoinfektion (auto-infection, self-infection), Selbstinfektion (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αυτομόλυνση (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

Italian

  

autoinfezione (auto-infection, exo-endogenous poisoning, self-infection). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

autoinfectionay

   

Portuguese

  

auto-infecção (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

autoinfección (auto-infection, self-infection). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

самозараження. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: AUTOINFECTION

Derivations

Words beginning with "AUTOINFECTION": autoinfections. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AUTOINFECTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-o-t-t-u"

-2 letters: confutation.

-3 letters: continuate.

-4 letters: fettucini, incaution, infection.

-5 letters: citation, conation, confetti, confetto, continua, continue, continuo, cotenant, countian, fetation, fountain, function, inaction, incitant, intonate, nicotine, notation, nutation, taconite, tunicate, uintaite, uncinate.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-o-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: autoinfections.

 

+3 letters: counterinflation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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