infective
adjective/ɪnˈfektɪv/
/ɪnˈfektɪv/
(medical)- able to cause infectionWord Originlate Middle English: from Latin infectivus, from inficere ‘to taint’, from in- ‘into’ + facere ‘put, do’.
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