Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of causing disease.
- adjective Originating or producing disease.
- adjective Of or relating to pathogenesis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease
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- adjective Able to cause (harmful)
disease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to cause disease
Etymologies
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Examples
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The so-called pathogenic bacteria never thrive in the baby's body until the infant has been overfed or fed on improper food long enough to break down its resistance.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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The fact will some day be generally recognized, as it is today by a few, that the so-called pathogenic bacteria or germs have no power to injure a healthy body, that there is bodily degeneration first and then the system becomes a favorable culture medium for germs: In other words, disease comes first and the pathogenic bacteria multiply afterwards.
Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker
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As our knowledge has advanced it has become abundantly evident that the so-called pathogenic bacteria are not organisms with special features, but that each is a member of a group of organisms possessing closely allied characters.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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There are other flu viruses that have emerged in recent decades such as the highly "pathogenic" (disease-causing) bird flu H5N1 that may have the potential to cause much greater human harm.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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There are other flu viruses that have emerged in recent decades such as the highly "pathogenic" (disease-causing) bird flu H5N1 that may have the potential to cause much greater human harm.
Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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There are other flu viruses that have emerged in recent decades such as the highly "pathogenic" (disease-causing) bird flu H5N1 that may have the potential to cause much greater human harm.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic 2010
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There are other flu viruses that have emerged in recent decades such as the highly "pathogenic" disease-causing bird flu H5N1 that may have the potential to cause much greater human harm.
Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic Kathy Freston 2010
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Chlorination aims at destroying or, at least, inactivating harmful microorganisms, such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and cysts present in the water.
1. Historical development and experience with water treatment 1996
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It's considered far more "pathogenic," or more likely to cause disease than subcutaneous fat - fat just beneath the skin that a person can pinch.
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It's considered far more "pathogenic," or more likely to cause disease than subcutaneous fat - fat just beneath the skin that a person can pinch.
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