Associations to the word «Fomite»
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Wiktionary
FOMITE, noun. (medicine) (epidemiology) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts.
Dictionary definition
FOMITE, noun. Any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another.
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