Infectious diseases are caused by prions, viruses, rickettsia, chlamydia, bacteria, pathogenic fungi and protozoa.
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Pathogenic
//pæθəˈd͡ʒɛnɪk//
Synonyms for "pathogenic" (25 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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1 entriesderived
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
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2 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 19 languages.
Belarusian
2 entries- патаге́нны adj (able to cause disease)
- хваробатво́рны adj (able to cause disease)
Catalan
2 entries- patogen adj (able to cause disease)
- patogènic adj (able to cause disease)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 病原的 adj (able to cause disease)
- 致病的 adj (able to cause disease)
Czech
2 entries- choroboplodný adj (able to cause disease)
- patogenní adj (able to cause disease)
Dutch
2 entries- pathogeen adj (able to cause disease)
- ziekteverwekkend adj (able to cause disease)
Finnish
1 entries- patogeeninen adj (able to cause disease)
French
1 entries- pathogène adj (able to cause disease)
Galician
1 entries- patóxeno adj (able to cause disease)
German
2 entries- krankheitserregend adj (able to cause disease)
- pathogen adj (able to cause disease)
Hungarian
1 entries- kórokozó adj (able to cause disease)
Italian
1 entries- patogenico adj (able to cause disease)
Kazakh
1 entries- патогендік adj (able to cause disease)
Polish
4 entries- chorobotwórczy adj (able to cause disease)
- patogenetyczny adj (able to cause disease)
- patogeniczny adj (able to cause disease)
- patogenny adj (able to cause disease)
Portuguese
2 entries- patogénico adj (able to cause disease)
- patógeno adj (able to cause disease)
Russian
2 entries- болезнетво́рный adj (able to cause disease)
- патоге́нный adj (able to cause disease)
Spanish
2 entries- patogénico adj (able to cause disease)
- patógeno adj (able to cause disease)
Swedish
1 entries- patogen adj (able to cause disease)
Tagalog
1 entries- mulsakitin adj (able to cause disease)
Ukrainian
2 entries- патоге́нний adj (able to cause disease)
- хвороботво́рний adj (able to cause disease)
Sample sentences
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Towards the end of the 1990s, several Asian countries lived one of their worst health nightmares. A new, highly pathogenic, strain of Avian Influenza known as H5N1 killed hundreds of people. Over the next years, more than 9-million chickens were destroyed in an effort to stem the epidemic. Scientists believe the H5N1 virus was transmitted from wild birds to domestic poultry and pigs, which then passed it to humans. H5N1 is just the latest of various influenza strains that have killed up to 100 million people over the last century.
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While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.
Source: wiktionary
Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.
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