pathogen
Syllables: path·o·gen/ˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/
pathogen noun: an agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
Noun
pathogen (plural pathogens)
- An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study...2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64
- Synonyms:
- infectious agent
pathogen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
pathogen in Hindi
- any organism or substance that causes disease
- रोगाणु rogāṇu, रोगजनक rogajnak
pathogen in Tamil
- any organism or substance that causes disease
- நோய்க்காரணி nōykkāraṇi
pathogen in Urdu
- پیتھوجن
pathogen in Bengali
- রোগজীবাণু, রোগ সৃষ্টিকারী এজেন্ট
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- pathogen in Telugu
- వ్యాధికారకం vyādhikārakaṁ
- pathogen in Malayalam
- രോഗകാരി
- pathogen in Kannada
- ರೋಗಾಣು rōgāṇu
- pathogen in Gujarati
- પેથોજેન, પેથોજન
- pathogen in Odia
- ରୋଗକାରକ
- pathogen in Nepali
- रोगजनक, प्याथोजेन, रोगकारक
- pathogen in Tagalog
- mulsakit
- pathogen in Arabic
- مسببات الأمراض
- pathogen in Malay
- patogen
- pathogen in Indonesian
- patogen
- pathogen in Persian
- بیماریزا bimâri-zâ
- pathogen in Thai
- จุลชีพก่อโรค
- pathogen in Vietnamese
- mầm bệnh
Examples of pathogen in a sentence
- For identification of the pathogen, a slide agglutination test with the corresponding antiplasma was used.
- Secondly, probably pathogens or allelopathetic substances may have accumulated in the central zones.
- He found that laughter enhanced the activity of certain immune system cells responsible for killing infectious pathogens.
Synonyms of pathogen
Forms of pathogen
| plural | pathogens |
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Origin of pathogen
From patho- + -gen. Second element ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“lineage”) through Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “birth”)
Words formed from pathogen
- allopathogen
- antipathogen
- biopathogen
- copathogen
- endopathogen
- enteropathogen
- entomopathogen
- exopathogen
- hemopathogen
- immunopathogen
- micropathogen
- multipathogen
- mycopathogen
- neuropathogen
- nonpathogen
- odontopathogen
- oncopathogen
- otopathogen
- pathogenesis
- pathogenic
- pathogenous
- pathogeny
- periodontopathogen
- periopathogen
- phytopathogen
- sinopathogen
- uropathogen
- zoopathogen
Questions about pathogen
- What does pathogen mean?
- Pathogen means an agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
- What is pathogen in Hindi?
- Pathogen in Hindi is रोगाणु (rogāṇu), रोगजनक (rogajnak). See Pathogen meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pathogen?
- Pathogen is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pathogen?
- Pathogen is pronounced /ˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/.
- What is the plural of pathogen?
- The plural of pathogen is pathogens.
Words near pathogen in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathogen (page history and authors); pathogen (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Pathogen (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pathogen (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pathogen (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pathogen (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pathogen (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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