单词 | infectability |
释义 | infectabilityn. The condition or property of being infectable; susceptibility to infection or a particular infection; the degree to which an individual, species, type of cell, etc., is susceptible to (an) infection. Cf. infectibility n. ΚΠ 1876 Rep. Royal Comm. on Pract. Subjecting Live Animals to Exper. 69/1 A few years ago it was necessary for us to follow..the subject of the infectability of animals by choleraic discharges. 1934 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 27 468 Hibernation was well-known to have an effect upon infectability [in hedgehogs]. 1989 Plant Cell 1 290/1 The number of local lesions formed on the inoculated leaves quantitated the infectability of the transgenic plants with TMV [= tobacco mosaic virus]. 2003 P. A. Treichler in M. A. Elliott & C. Stokes Amer. Literary Stud. 203 More useful..is a concept of circles or networks of sexual/social contact, where the density of viral prevalence better predicts the infectability of the uninfected. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876 |
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