Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inanimate object or substance that is capable of transmitting infectious organisms from one individual to another.
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- noun medicine, epidemiology An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as
bacteria ,viruses andparasites ), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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Furthermore, I found it hard to believe that Dr. Erin Mears Kate Winslet has to define the word fomite for senior staffers at the Minnesota Department of Health.
Slate Magazine Arthur Allen 2011
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Furthermore, I found it hard to believe that Dr. Erin Mears Kate Winslet has to define the word fomite for senior staffers at the Minnesota Department of Health.
Slate Magazine Arthur Allen 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine Priya Malhotra 2011
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Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease.
Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage" Margie Goldsmith 2010
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Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease.
Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage" Margie Goldsmith 2010
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Direct zoonoses are transmitted from an infected vertebrate host to another host by direct contact, fomite or mechanical vector.
Zoonotic diseases 2009
qms commented on the word fomite
Consider the mysophobe's plight:
He's trying his best to be polite
While hiding his fear
That everything near
Is a fierce and slavering fomite.
June 1, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word fomite
Also see fomes.
January 15, 2019