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See also: fómite
Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A back-formation from fomites, plural of fomes, a borrowing of medical Latin fōmes (“tinder, kindling”), used figuratively to evoke the analogy of a spreading infection to a spreading fire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]fomite (plural fomites)
- (medicine) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses oder prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry.
- 1859, Richard Francis Burton, “The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa...”, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, number 29, page 134:
- 2009, Raina M. Maier et al., Environmental Microbiology, page 559:
- Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces. Fomites may also serve as a site for the replication of a pathogen, as in the case of enteric bacteria in household sponges or dishcloths.
Synonyms
[edit]- fomes (archaic)
Translations
[edit]inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents
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References
[edit]- "fomite, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1897.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]fomite m (plural fomiti)
- incitement
- cause, source
- 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 71:
- Egli ha insozzato la parola di Gioacchino di Calabria e ne ha fatto fomite di morte e sporcizia!
- He besmirched Gioacchino di Calabria's words and made them source of death and filth!
Latin
[edit]Nomen
[edit]fōmite
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