infusions

A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

n in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter

A technically bankrupt company that is kept alive with large infusions of government money for the sake of "stability" in the U.S