pathogen

From patho- +‎ -gen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/

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• Hyphenation: path‧o‧gen

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pathogen (plural pathogens)

1. (pathology, immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.

   Synonym: infectious agent

   • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:

     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 a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

• heptagon, phone tag

From πάθος (páthos, “suffering, pain”) + -γενής (-genḗs, “producer of”). Equivalent to patho- + -gen.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpatoˈɡeːn/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tho‧gen

pathogen (strong nominative masculine singular pathogener, comparative pathogener, superlative am pathogensten)

1. pathogenic

   Synonym: krankheitserregend

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• Pathogenität

• “pathogen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “pathogen” in Duden online
• “pathogen”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “pathogen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon