Crossword-Solution: INFECTIVE 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Infective a. Infectious.

We have 4 clues for the answer “INFECTIVE”

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NATURE of an infection (pert. to) 1 answer
capable of causing infection 2 answers
catchy 6 answers
Contagious 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCAZEE
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eruption
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Sentences with INFECTIVE (5)

But that won’t eliminate the bug.” “Why not?” “It’ll still survive in its infective form and enough Lani will get subacute dosage to propagate it until the time is right for another epizootic.
The Lani People J. F. Bone 2001
Systemic treatment and cooking of all food had cleaned up the infective cercaria and individual infections, and after six months of intensive search, quarantine, and investigation, Kennon was morally certain that the disease had been eradicated.
The Lani People J. F. Bone 2001
Endocarditis may be divided into: acute mild (simple) endocarditis, acute malignant (ulcerative, infective) endocarditis, chronic endocarditis and valvular disease.
DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003
TREATMENT A subacute or a chronic infective endocarditis should be treated on the same plan as an acute endocarditis, which means rest in bed and whatever medication seems advisable, depending on the supposed cause of the condition.
DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D. 2003
The serpent has not her poison, in the original of it, either from imitation or from other infective things abroad, though it may by such things be helped forward and increased; but she brings it with her in her bowels, in her nature, and it is to her as suitable to her present condition as it is that which is most sweet and wholesome to other of the creatures.
The Works of John Bunyan John Bunyan 2002

Quotes with INFECTIVE (1)

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
Where this answer appears

Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1979).