Word Meanings - AUTO-INFECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• VIRUS
  Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons. The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into
• POISON BUSH
  Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc. The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• POISONER
  One who poisons. Shak.
• POISONABLE
  1. Capable of poisoning; poisonous. "Poisonable heresies." Tooker. 2. Capable of being poisoned.
• CAUSATION
  The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• MICROORGANISM; MICRO-ORGANISM
  Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• IMPOISONER
  A poisoner. Beau. & Fi.
• IMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning or impoisoning. Pope.
• CATACAUSTIC
  Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.