infections
Sayin-FEK-shuhnz/ɪnˈfɛkʃənz/
- 1Plural of infection.
Hospitals track infections carefully to prevent outbreaks among patients.
Several infections spread through the school during the winter months.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable side of infection. Every meaning of the singular can also be a mass noun, as in the risk of infection or a wound kept free of infection, and in that use it takes no plural at all. Infections counts separate things: individual cases, distinct diseases, or the visible signs of one, as in two wound infections.
infections is a form of infection
infection, noun: A disease caused by the presence of a harmful pathogen in the body. Full entry
- Forms
- infectioninfections plural
- Spelling
- infection → infections: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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