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Definition of Focal infection
1. Noun. Bacterial infection limited to a specific organ or region especially one causing symptoms elsewhere.
Medical Definition of Focal infection
1. An old term which distinguishes local infection's (focal) from generalised infection's (sepsis). (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Focal Infection
Literary usage of Focal infection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"focal infection is often due to streptococci. This name is given to a systemic
or local disease due to bacteria carried in the blood- or lymph-stream from a ..."
2. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1919)
"The importance which oral infection plays in nervous diseases is due chiefly to
the fact that it is the most frequent situation of focal infection. ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"focal infection, tonsils. equally involved. It may vary from a simple annular
narrowing to a marked area of dense infiltration in the ureteral wall. ..."
4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association by American Laryngological Association (1917)
"... AND focal infection GREENFIELD SLUDER, MD Anatomical observation and description
of the lingual tonsil was given by ..."
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