Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being infected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being infected.
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- adjective Able to be
infected ; capable ofinfection .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stages A and B are generally susceptible to a high number of fungal pathogens, stage C is of intermediate resistance and stage D is not infectible by biotrophic leaf pathogens.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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Since mice and humans each have a species-specific version of the four factors, the group used hamster cells to see which combination of factors did the best job at making the cells infectible.
innovations-report 2009
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When Rice and his colleagues engineered mouse and human cell lines to express all four proteins, they showed that each cell line became infectible with the virus.
innovations-report 2009
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