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pathogenic

US/pæθəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/

pathogenic adjective: able to cause (harmful) disease.

Adjective

pathogenic (comparative more pathogenic, superlative most pathogenic)

  1. Able to cause (harmful) disease.
    • While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.
  2. Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.
    • Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.2008, Curt Sachs, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West, page 42

pathogenic meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

pathogenic in Tamil

நோய் ஏற்படுத்தும், நோய்விளைவிக்கின்ற, தீங்கான, நோய் தன்மையுடைய, நோயாக்குகின்ற

pathogenic in Malayalam

രോഗോല്പാദനമായ

pathogenic in Tagalog

able to cause disease
mulsakitin

Examples of pathogenic in a sentence

  • Highly pathogenic bird flu (HPAI) is of rising concern to epidemiologists.
  • The gut bacteria are important for programming early immune responses, bioconverting ingested nutrients and inhibiting pathogenic bacteria.
  • Furthermore when the bacteria become pathogenic, the nasopharynx is the port-of-entry of the infection.

All 16 example sentences with pathogenic

Forms of pathogenic

comparativemore pathogenic
superlativemost pathogenic

Origin of pathogenic

From patho- + -genic.

Words formed from pathogenic

Words that rhyme with pathogenic

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Questions about pathogenic

What does pathogenic mean?
Pathogenic means able to cause (harmful) disease.
What is pathogenic in Tamil?
Pathogenic in Tamil is நோய் ஏற்படுத்தும், நோய்விளைவிக்கின்ற, தீங்கான. See Pathogenic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pathogenic?
Pathogenic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pathogenic?
Pathogenic is pronounced /pæθəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ (US).

Words near pathogenic in the dictionary

  1. pathogenetic
  2. pathogenetical
  3. pathogenetically
  4. pathogeneticity
  5. pathogenetics
  6. pathogenic
  7. pathogenical
  8. pathogenically
  9. pathogenicities
  10. pathogenicity
  11. pathogenies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pathogenic (page history and authors); pathogenic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pathogenic (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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