console. A grouping of controls, indicators, and similar electronic or mechanical equipment, used to monitor readiness of, and/or control specific functions of, a system, such as missile checkout, countdown, or launch operations. Past participle: consoled. Gerund: consoling.
Understanding infection vs. disease. There's a difference between infection and disease. Infection, often the first step, occurs when bacteria, viruses or other microbes that cause disease enter your body and begin to multiply.here's a difference between infection and disease. Infection, often the first step, occurs when bacteria, viruses or other microbes that cause disease enter your body and begin to multiply.
1 A pathogen is a micro-organism that has the potential to cause disease. 2  An infection is the invasion and multiplication of pathogenic microbes in an individual or population. 3  Disease is when the infection causes damage to the individualâs vital functions or systems.icrobes and disease. A few harmful microbes, for example less than 1 % of bacteria, can invade our body (the host) and make us ill. Microbes cause infectious diseases such as flu and measles.