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Definition of Fomite
1. Noun. Any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another.
Definition of Fomite
1. Noun. (medicine epidemiology) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts. ¹
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Definition of Fomite
1. an inanimate object that serves to transmit infectious organisms [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fomite
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fomite
Literary usage of Fomite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Life and Medical Opinions of John Armstrong ...: To which is by Francis Boott (1834)
"... mundum introducere; idque ex contagio aut fomite non ... vel in fomite latente.
Non ab illo, quia venti et radii solares aeris ..."
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