risk of infection

1. 1.

   the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred

   Synonymsrisk

   Broaderprobability

Questions about risk of infection

What does risk of infection mean?

risk of infection means "the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred".

What is another word for risk of infection?

Close synonyms include risk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is risk of infection a common word?

risk of infection is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.