pathogen
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From patho- + -gen . Second element ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- ("lineage") through Ancient Greek γένος (génos, "birth")
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]pathogen (plural pathogens )
- (pathology , immunology ) An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
- Synonym: infectious agent
- Hypernyms: agent , entity
- 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, "Ecological Dependency", in American Scientist [1] , 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.
Usage notes
[edit ]In most contexts, the term pathogen is exclusively applied to infectious microorganisms, including viruses, or their components (such as prions), and does not cover other harmful substances such as asbestos or various toxins. Some authors reserve the term for the microorganisms that are the cause of an observed case of disease, so in this usage the same microorganism that is pathogenic in one host may not be categorized as a pathogen in another infected host, where it may often be a commensal.
Derived terms
[edit ]- allopathogen
- antipathogen
- biopathogen
- copathogen
- endopathogen
- enteropathogen
- entomopathogen
- exopathogen
- hemopathogen
- immunopathogen
- micropathogen
- multipathogen
- mycopathogen
- neuropathogen
- nonpathogen
- odontopathogen
- oncopathogen
- otopathogen
- pathogenesis
- pathogenic
- pathogenous
- pathogeny
- periodontopathogen
- periopathogen
- phytopathogen
- sinopathogen
- uropathogen
- zoopathogen
Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]- Albanian: sëmundjeshkaktues
- Arabic: مسببات الأمراض
- Bulgarian: болестотворен организъм m (bolestotvoren organizăm)
- Catalan: patogen (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: patogen m
- Dutch: pathogeen (nl) , ziektekiem (nl) f
- Finnish: patogeeni (fi) , taudinaiheuttaja (fi)
- French: pathogène (fr)
- German: Krankheitserreger (de) m
- Greek: παθογόνος (el) m (pathogónos)
- Hebrew: פתוגן m (patogen)
- Hindi: रोगाणु m (rogāṇu), रोगजनक (hi) m (rogajnak)
- Hungarian: kórokozó (hu) , patogén (hu)
- Indonesian: patogen (id)
- Irish: pataigin f
- Italian: patogeno (it) m, agente patogeno m
- Japanese: 病原体 (ja) (びょうげんたい, byōgentai), 病原菌 (ja) (びょうげんきん, byōgenkin) (especially for microorganism)
- Kannada: ರೋಗಾಣು (kn) (rōgāṇu)
- Kazakh: патоген (patogen)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hokara nexweşiyê f, tûşker
- Latin: pathogenum n
- Latvian: patogēns m
- Lithuanian: patogenas m, ligos sukėlėjas m
- Malay: patogen
- Māori: tukumate , moroiti tahumaero
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: patogèn (oc) m
- Persian: بیماریزا (fa) (bimâri-zâ)
- Polish: patogen (pl)
- Portuguese: patógeno m
- Quechua: unquchiq
- Romanian: agent patogen (ro)
- Russian: патоге́н (ru) m (patogén)
- Slovak: patogén
- Slovene: patogen m
- Spanish: patógeno (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮊᮥᮙᮔ᮪ (kuman)
- Swedish: smittämne (sv) n, patogen (sv) c
- Tagalog: mulsakit
- Tamil: நோய்க்காரணி (nōykkāraṇi)
- Telugu: వ్యాధికారకం (vyādhikārakaṁ)
- Thai: จุลชีพก่อโรค (th)
- Turkish: patojen (tr)
- Ukrainian: патоген m (patohen)
- Vietnamese: mầm bệnh (vi)
Anagrams
[edit ]German
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From πάθος (páthos, "suffering, pain") + -γενής (-genḗs, "producer of"). Equivalent to patho- + -gen .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]pathogen (strong nominative masculine singular pathogener , comparative pathogener , superlative am pathogensten )
- pathogenic
- Synonym: krankheitserregend
Declension
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- English terms prefixed with patho-
- English terms suffixed with -gen
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Pathology
- en:Immunology
- English terms with quotations
- German terms suffixed with -gen
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German adjectives
- de:Pathology