wound infection
1Wound — This article is about wounds in humans and animals. For wounds in plants, see Plant pathology. For other uses, see Wound (disambiguation). Wound Classification and external resources Wounded man …
2wound — wound1 woundedly, adv. woundingly, adv. /woohnd/; Older Use and Literary /wownd/, n. 1. an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather… …
3Wound healing — Hand abrasion …
4Infection — An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host s resources to multiply (usually at the expense of the host). The infecting organism, or… …
5Infection — The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another organism and draws its nourishment therefrom.) A person with an infection has another organism (a germ ) growing within him, drawing its… …
6infection — /in fek sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected. 2. an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing. 3. an infecting agency or influence. 4. an infectious disease …
7wound botulism — botulism resulting from infection of a wound with Clostridium botulinum; it is marked by the same symptoms as the foodborne form except for the absence of gastrointestinal symptoms …
8infection — n. invasion of the body by harmful organisms (pathogens), such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, rickettsiae, or viruses. The infective agent may be transmitted by a patient or carrier in airborne droplets expelled during coughing and sneezing or by… …
9Klebsiella infection — Infobox Disease Name = Klebsiella pneumoniae Caption = K. pneumoniae on a MacConkey agar plate. DiseasesDB = 7181 ICD10 = ICD10|B|96|1|b|95, ICD10|G|00|8|g|00, ICD10|J|15|0|j|09, ICD10|P|23|6|p|20 ICD9 = ICD9|041.3, ICD9|320.82, ICD9|482.0 ICDO …
10clostridial infection — ▪ pathology any of several infectious conditions in animals and humans resulting from Clostridium species, bacteria that are found in soil and that enter the body via puncture wounds or contaminated food. These bacteria synthesize and release… …
