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pythogenic, a.|paɪθəʊˈdʒɛnɪk|
[f. Gr. πῡ́θειν to rot + -γεν- producing + -ic.]
Generated by or from corruption or filth; esp. in pythogenic fever, a name for typhoid or enteric fever.
1862C. Murchison Contin. Fevers Gr. Brit. iv. 385 Pythogenic or Enteric Fever. Ibid. 388 These considerations induced me to suggest a few years ago, the name Pythogenic Fever derived from what I endeavoured to show was the cause of the fever. 1881Tyndall Floating Matter Air i. 15 It was..no problematical pythogenic gas—that killed the worms, but a definite organism. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases x. 179 Malta fever—a disease probably of pythogenic origin.
So pythoˈgenesis, production or generation by or from filth; pythogeˈnetic a. = pythogenic.
1882Ogilvie, Pythogenesis. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 792 The pythogenetic theory of Murchison..became untenable. |