Definition of Locus of infection

1. Noun. The specific site in the body where an infection originates.

Generic synonyms: Site, Situation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Locus Of Infection

locum
locum tenant
locum tenens
locum tenentes
locums
locus
locus ceruleus
locus cinereus
locus coeruleus
locus control region
locus ferrugineus
locus minoris resistentiae
locus niger
locus of control
locus of infection (current term)
locus perforatus anticus
locus perforatus posticus
locust
locust bean
locust bean gum
locust beans
locust borer
locust borers
locust gum
locust pod
locust trees
locusta
locustae

Literary usage of Locus of infection

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

1. Surgical After-treatment by Le Roi Goddard Crandon, Albert Ehrenfried (1912)
"... be included those Septicemias in which the atrium of infection is not demonstrable or in which the locus of infection cannot be extirpated or drained. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use by Austin Flint (1884)
"Usually, although not always, the locus of infection communicates with the open air. The hectic fever of phthisis, the suppurative fever of smallpox and ..."

3. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... the changes that appear subsequently are an allergic response of sensitized tissue to a circulating allergen formed in the primary locus of infection. ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"In fifteen consecutive cases of suppurative meningitis which were examined by the author, all except one showed an obvious primary locus of infection, ..."

5. Autotherapy by Charles H. Duncan (1918)
"These localities are but relatively infrequently the locus of infection in rheumatism, appendicitis, cholecystitis, etc. In but one rheumatism case in forty ..."

6. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"When the parenchyma is the primary locus of infection, the resulting parent cyst may develop, as does a myoma, either beneath the mucous membrane, ..."

7. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1910)
"... and there must be nothing left behind that may decompose or form a point or locus of infection; so that if I get my hand above the placental mass. which ..."

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