かんせん
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
Medicine
1. infection; contagion; becoming infected
But where did I get infected?
2. being infected (e.g. with harmful ideas); being influenced (by)
He was spreading that hatred to everyone around him like an infection.
Pitch accent
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んせん
Used in vocabulary (49 in total)
infectious disease; infection
infectious disease
infected person; carrier (e.g. of a virus)
infectivity; infectious capacity; transmissibility
source of infection
airborne infection
infection route; source of infection
spread of infection
infectiousness
infection through contact
secondary infection
mass infection; infection outbreak; infection cluster
explosive growth of infections; explosion of cases of an infection
infection control; infection prevention measures
droplet infection
infection rate
hospital-acquired infection; healthcare-associated infection; HCAI; nosocomial infection
infection prevention; disease control
oral infection; orally transmitted infection
risk of infection
mother-to-child infection
infection prevention; infection control
opportunistic infection
case of infection
respiratory tract infection; RTI
infection route; transmission route
percutaneous infection
reinfection
death from infection
superinfection
susceptibility to infection; lack of resistance to infection
vertical transmission; vertical infection
mixed infection
source of infection
superinfection; coinfection
respiratory tract infection; RTI
droplet nuclei infection
asymptomatic spread (of an infectious disease); silent infection; subclinical infection
community-acquired infection; community transmission
apparent infection
human-to-human transmission (of a disease)
human-to-human transmission (of a disease)
breakthrough infection (infection in someone who is vaccinated)
breakthrough infection (infection in someone who is vaccinated)
intrapartum infection; infection acquired during birth
National Institute of Infectious Diseases (abbr.); NIID
Examples (12 in total)
Since you didn't get infected, isn't that fine?
But where did I get infected?
Sadness infects those around you.