fomite

Russian translation: фомит

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English term or phrase:	fomite
Russian translation:	фомит
Entered by:	Yuri Geifman

12:23 Nov 17, 2001

English to Russian translations [PRO]
Medical / Infection control

English term or phrase: fomite

Fomite
A fomite (FOE-mite) is a physical object that serves to transmit an infectios agent from person to person. For example, a comb infested with one or more head lice would be a fomite. Likewise, the dust particles containing infectious cold virus that remain after droplets of infected saliva are coughed into the air are fomites.

Would someone happen to know whether the term exists in Russian? I can't find anything of the sort on the Russian Internet.

Yuri Geifman KudoZ activity Questions: 278 (none open) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 873 Canada
Local time: 01:20

фомиты

Explanation:
Предмет, бывший в контакте с патогенными микроорганизмами и являющийся потенциально опасным для людей и животных.

Справки: Лингво 7.0 EN-RU Medical

Selected response from:

Natasha Stoyanova
Local time: 08:20

Grading comment

Thanks, and welcome back (haven't seen you in some time). Looks like I should buy that Lingvo CD, their online version didn't have this word.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

фомиты

Natasha Stoyanova

фомиты

Natasha Stoyanova

fomit

Shifra Kilov

предмет, которым пользовался больной инфекционным заболеванием

H.A. (X)

предмет, через который может передаваться инфекция

Tatyana M.

Answers

9 mins confidence:

предмет, которым пользовался больной инфекционным заболеванием

Explanation:
This is what I have found on one of the many sites said to contain this term (others would not open, though):

Медицинский словарь - OXFORD
ПРЕДМЕТ, КОТОРЫМ ПОЛЬЗОВАЛСЯ БОЛЬНОЙ ИНФЕКЦИОННЫМ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЕМ (fomes, множ. fomites) - любой предмет, которым пользовался больной заразной болезнью и ...
http://target-21.h1.ru/b007/16_7.html - 77К - строгое соответствие

target-21.h1.ru/b007/16_7.html

H.A. (X)
PRO pts in pair: 54

14 mins confidence:

фомиты

Natasha Stoyanova
Local time: 08:20
Native speaker of:

Bulgarian
PRO pts in pair: 174

Grading comment

Thanks, and welcome back (haven't seen you in some time). Looks like I should buy that Lingvo CD, their online version didn't have this word.

15 mins confidence:

фомиты

Explanation:
Предмет, бывший в контакте с патогенными микроорганизмами и являющийся потенциально опасным для людей и животных.

Справки: Лингво 7.0 EN-RU Medical

Natasha Stoyanova
Local time: 08:20
Native speaker of:

Bulgarian
PRO pts in pair: 174

21 mins confidence:

fomit

Explanation:
fomites -- fomity
(predmety, byvshie v kontakte s patogennymi mikroorganizmami i potencial'no opasnie dlya lyudej i zhivotnyx)
Bol'shoj anglo-russkij politehnicheskij slovar', "Russo", Moskva, 1997

Shifra Kilov
United States
Local time: 01:20
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian
PRO pts in pair: 9

52 mins confidence:

предмет, через который может передаваться инфекция

Explanation:
Еще один вариант, попроще

fomites (pl от fomes) =предметы, через которые может передаваться инфекция (напр. шерстяная одежда, книги и т.п.)

К сожалению ничего короче не всплывает

Вот если бы что-то типа "инфектогены" существовало...

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Tatyana M.
Local time: 17:20
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in pair: 14

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