pathogenic
IPA: pæθʌdʒˈɛnɪk
adjective
- (pathology) Able to cause (harmful) disease.
- (music) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.
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Examples of "pathogenic" in Sentences
- It cures the accumulation of pathogenic factors in the chest.
- 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.
- Chlorination aims at destroying or, at least, inactivating harmful microorganisms, such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and cysts present in the water.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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