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Plural of infection

regular plural

The plural of infection is infections.

Forms of infection

Singularinfection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/
Pluralinfections
Countablecountable and uncountable

Infections in a sentence

  • And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader
  • Otic preparations are used to treat infections of the ear canal.From the entry otic
  • The danger now isn't so much from the AIDS virus itself as from opportunistic infections.From the entry opportunistic
  • After the incident with the gasoline, Noel’s burnt arm remained scabrous and was susceptible to infections.From the entry scabrous
  • Ototopical antibiotics can fight some ear infections better than systemic antibiotics can.From the entry ototopical

Meaning of infection

  1. noun The act or process of infecting.
  2. noun An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
  3. noun A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.

Full definition of infection

Questions about the plural of infection

What is the plural of infection?
The plural of infection is infections.
Is infection countable?
Infection is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infection (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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