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Definition of Locus of infection
1. Noun. The specific site in the body where an infection originates.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locus Of Infection
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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