Crossword clues for infective
infective
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infective \In*fect"ive\, a. [L. infectivus pertaining to
dyeing.]
Infectious.
--Beau. & Fl.
True love . . . hath an infective power.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin infectivus, from infectus (see infect).
Wiktionary
a. Able to cause infection; infectious n. (context epidemiology English) A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others
WordNet
adj. able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: morbific, pathogenic]
caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn: infectious]
Usage examples of "infective".
HIV is a highly lethal but not very infective Biosafety Level 2 agent.
It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that smell of the vomit negro fills the passenger cabin.
A battery-powered blower, worn at the waist, drives filtered air into the helmet, keeping it under positive pressure, so that infective bioparticles in the air will not sneak in.
Systemic treatment and cooking of all food had cleaned up the infective cercaria and individual infections, and after six months of intensive search, quarantine, and investigation, Kennon was morally certain that the disease had been eradicated.
Some of the possibilities included VEE and EEE (brain viruses), Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus (highly infective in the lungs when it's freezedried), Marburg, Machupo, Rift Valley fever, Lassa, Junin, Sabia, enterovirus 17, camelpox, monkeypox, and smallpox.
Their digestive systems rejected any substance that would impair their health, and they had a dynamic reaction to infective material.
Some of the possibilities included VEE and EEE (brain viruses), Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus (highly infective in the lungs when it's freeze.
He'd add that they were highly infective, and One City was already inescapably doomed to an epidemic which would begin with severe headaches, and would continue with cramps and extreme nervous agitation.
They can't even build a gene spinner, let alone decode a homoeobox, but they slaughtered enough seniles that they found the infective agent for sponge-brain syndrome.
The severity of the initial symptoms suggests that they all received an overwhelming dose of the infective agent.
In sick amazement Donald envisaged himself as the carrier of a new and strange disease: the infective agent for riot and slaughter.
It seemed possible there was an infective agent in the claw and teeth wounds made by the alien, with which the ship's medicines were having trouble coping.
But it is statistically more probable that he has been exposed to a particularly potent infective agent --- a John Wesley, a Jim Jones or a St.
It might be caused by some infective agent encountered on Bronson Beta.