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Word: Infectant
Speech Type: Noun
mid 19th century; earliest use found in The London Medical Gazette. From infect + -ant, probably after French infectant, adjective and noun (although this is apparently first attested later than in English: 1854 or earlier)
An infecting or infectious agent.
Word: Infectant
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 19th century; earliest use found in The London Medical Gazette. From infect + -ant, probably after French infectant, adjective and noun (although this is apparently first attested later than in English: 1854 or earlier)
Causing infection; infectious.
