Definition: containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Usage: a septic sore throat; a septic environment; septic sewage
Similar words: abscessed
Definition: infected and filled with pus
Usage: an abscessed tooth
Similar words: pestiferous, dirty
Definition: contaminated with infecting organisms
Usage: dirty wounds; obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen
Similar words: contaminative
Definition: making impure by contact or mixing
Similar words: purulent, pussy
Definition: containing pus
Usage: a purulent wound
Similar words: infectious, infective
Definition: caused by infection or capable of causing infection
Usage: viruses and other infective agents; a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease
Similar words: putrefacient, putrefactive
Definition: causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction
Similar words: septicemic
Definition: characteristic of septicemia
Usage: a septicemic temperature curve