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Definition of Infiltration

1. Noun. A process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection).

2. Noun. The slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium. "The infiltration of seawater through the lava"

Definition of Infiltration

1. n. The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

Definition of Infiltration

1. Noun. The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. ¹

2. Noun. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. ¹

3. Noun. The act of entering a physical location and/or organization secretly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infiltration

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Infiltration

1. The diffusion or accumulation in a tissue or cells of substances not normal to it or in amounts of the normal. Also, the material so accumulated. (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infiltration

infilm infilmed infilming infilms infilter infiltered infiltering infilters infiltrate infiltrated

infiltrates infiltrating infiltrating cancer infiltrating ductal cell carcinoma infiltrating lipoma infiltration (current term) infiltration anaesthesia infiltrations infiltrative infiltrative cardiomyopathy

infiltratively infiltrator infiltrators infimum infimums infinate infinitary infinite infinite distance infinite loop

Literary usage of Infiltration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook on Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention and Control Planning (1993)
"All flow entering an infiltration basin (up to the capacity of the basin) is, therefore, ... infiltration is the major pollutant removal mechanism. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"TUBERCULOUS infiltration OP THE PHARYNX AND TONGUE. At a meeting of the Laryngological Society of London (Journal of Laryngology, ..."

3. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"But examination of the bordering tissue gives the following: There is cell-infiltration, to a very slight extent, it is true; there is development of small ..."

4. The Ore Deposits of the United States and Canada by James Furman Kemp (1900)
"Ascension by (a) infiltration, or (b) sublimation with steam, or (c) by sublimation as gas, or (d) by igneous injection. To these should be added the more ..."

5. An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green, Hubert Montague Murray (1895)
"The abnormal accumulation of fat in the tissues may result fn either infiltration or metamorphosis (p. 45)—two essen t ¡all v differ- — ent processes as ..."

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