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pathogenic
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Word definitions for pathogenic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"producing disease," 1836, from French pathogénique , from Greek pathos "disease" (see pathos ) + French -génique "producing" (see -gen ). Related: Pathogenetic (1838); pathogenicity .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context pathology English) Able to cause (harmful) disease. 2 (context music English) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pathogenic \Path`o*gen"ic\, a. [Gr. ? disease + the root of ? birth.] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: infective , morbific ]
Usage examples of pathogenic.
The general bacteriophage which has so nearly eliminated disease caused by pathogenic microorganisms on Earth was found capable of a subtle modification which made it potent against the analogous but different diseases of Venus.
On this view, excitations occurring during these hypnoid states can easily become pathogenic because such states do not provide opportunities for the normal discharge of the process of excitation.
This finds its way, like a foreign body, into the normal state, which in turn is in ignorance of the hypnoid pathogenic situation.
All these terms that became cliches denial, schizogenic, pathogenic family like systems and so on and so forth.
Artificially stimulating "something" into expressing itself—it could be a strip of "provirus" code carried in the culture-cell's DNA—is a long way from demonstrating an active, pathogenic virus from a human body.
Wolf, watching a naked child defecate on a pile of garbage, recalled reading a city Health Services report - quickly suppressed by the mayor's office - that found the number of colonies of pathogenic micro-organisms like diplococcus, staph, amoeba and salmonella per cubic metre here to be completely off the measurement scale.
Just as they had a built-in unit in their digestive tract to cause the instant rejection of unwholesome food, their body cells had a built-in ability to produce antibodies immediately if the toxin of a pathogenic organism came into contact with them.
Trojans were bacteria which could reproduce themselves and their hidden pathogenic cargo-without symptoms or an immune response-for dozens of generations .
High-level pharms which could analyze the pathogenic organisms and design a cure on the spot would be unavailable, thanks to the boycott, and I'd be too weak for the flight back to civilisation .
If it pops up once every ten thousand or hundred thousand years, how can we defend that it is, in any sense, a separate organic concern, a purely pathogenic particle?
Also, sometimes, various kinds of pathogenic microorganisms, such as staphs streps, viruses, spiros, and so on.