fatal infection
Kills through disease
A fatal infection is an infection that causes death.
The phrase appears in medical contexts and news reports: The outbreak caused several fatal infections.
Fatal emphasizes the outcome rather than the severity—an infection might be serious without being fatal, but a fatal infection by definition kills.
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- sepsisDangerous inflammatory infection response
- septic shockSevere infection causing collapse
- blood poisoningInfection spreading through bloodstream
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
contagion · patient zero · virus · bacteria · plague · mortality · terminal · point of no return · lethal · gangrene · fever · open wound · outbreak · pathogen · necrosis · epidemic · wound · toxin
health state
fatal infectionclean bill of health
Official statement of soundness
perfect health · full recovery · immunity · robust health · localized infection
fatal, infection, fate, fated, fateful, fatefully, fatalism, fatalist, fatalistic