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vec⋅tion

  [vek-shuhn]
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–noun Medicine/Medical.
the transference of a disease from one person to another.
Origin:
1600–10; < L vectiōn- (s. of vectiō a carrying). See vector, -tion
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Vection

Vec"tion\, n. [L. vectio, from vehere, vectum, to carry.] Vectitation. [Obs.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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vection vec·tion (věk'shən)
n.
The transference of pathogens from the sick to the healthy by a vector.

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