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pathologenic

pathologenic is the misspelling of pathogenic.

Meaning of pathogenic

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

Questions about pathologenic

What is pathologenic the misspelling of?
Pathologenic is the misspelling of pathogenic.

Words near pathologenic in the dictionary

  1. pathokinematics
  2. pathol
  3. patholaxity
  4. patholinguistic
  5. patholinguistics
  6. pathologenic
  7. pathologic
  8. pathological
  9. pathological coupling
  10. pathological couplings
  11. pathological histology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathologenic (page history and authors); pathogenic (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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