RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory tract infection mean? 

• RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION (noun)
  The noun RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION has 1 sense:

1. any infection of the respiratory tract

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any infection of the respiratory tract

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

respiratory infection; respiratory tract infection

Hypernyms ("respiratory tract infection" is a kind of...):

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "respiratory tract infection"):

lower respiratory infection (infection of the lower respiratory tract)

upper respiratory infection (infection of the upper respiratory tract)

 Context examples 

Any of the viruses capable of causing the respiratory tract infection commonly called the flu.

(Influenza virus, NCI Thesaurus)

This may prevent lower respiratory tract infections by RSV in immunocompromised patients.

(High-titer RSV Immune Globulin RI-001, NCI Thesaurus)

E. cloacae is associated with hospital-acquired urinary and respiratory tract infections and is used in industry for explosives biodegradation.

(Enterobacter cloacae, NCI Thesaurus)

A. ureae is found rarely as a commensal organism of the human respiratory tract and may cause respiratory tract infections in humans.

(Actinobacillus ureae, NCI Thesaurus)

Clofoctol is used in the treatment of upper and lower respiratory tract infections.

(Clofoctol, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus bacteria within the phylum Proteobacteria that causes upper respiratory tract infections, particularly in immunocompromised hosts.

(Moraxella catarrhalis, NCI Thesaurus)