pathogenic

Able to cause (harmful) disease.

Adjective

  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:

Origin

From patho- + -genic.

Forms

more pathogenic most pathogenic

Related

pathology

Derived

acaropathogenic aetiopathogenic antipathogenic apathogenic autopathogenic cardiopathogenic clinicopathogenic copathogenic cytopathogenic encephalopathogenic endopathogenic entomopathogenic hepatopathogenic hyperpathogenic ichthyopathogenic immunopathogenic multipathogenic mycopathogenic nematopathogenic nephropathogenic neuropathogenic nonpathogenic odontopathogenic otopathogenic