单词 | pathogenic |
释义 | pathogenicadj. 1. Medicine and Biology. Producing physical disease; of or relating to the production of physical disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] pestilenta1398 peccant1595 repeccating1598 diseaseful1605 morbifical1620 morbific1652 morbid1656 morbificous1657 diseasifying1662 morbiferous1718 nosopoetic1733 pathogenetic1830 morbiferal1848 pathogenic1850 pathopoeous1857 pathogenous1873 pathophoric1899 diseasing?1915 1850 R. E. Dugeon (title) The pathogenic cyclopaedia. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xx. 246 In the torrid zone..the people multiply pathogenic causes at will. 1882 Nature 9 Mar. 439 Recent researches..tend to show that pathogenic bacteria are mere modifications of saprogenic forms. 1913 H. J. Hutchens tr. A. Besson Pract. Bacteriol. xxviii. 446 Varieties of the Pasteurella could be distinguished by means of their pathogenic properties. 1932 R. Robison Significance Phosphoric Esters in Metabolism i. 5 The pathogenic activity of the tubercle bacillus. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxii. 275 The following species, pathogenic for man, are usually included in this group. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) xvi. 417 It's pretty fucking scary. Not to mention, like, the pathogenic, i.e., disease-producing, organisms they're got sitting in petri dishes all over the place. 2. Psychiatry. Causing, or tending to cause, mental illness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > causing mad1567 madding1592 extractinga1616 insanea1616 dementating1652 maddening1822 dementing1861 pathogenic1909 1909 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria iv. 88 If I could now make it probable that the idea became pathogenic in consequence of the exclusion and repression, the chain would seem complete. 1950 E. H. Erikson Childhood & Society iv. viii. 268 Mothers who drive on but cannot let go (they are the pathogenic, the ‘overprotective’ ones). 1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. xi. 273 The ‘predisposition’ necessary for the later traumatic event to become pathogenic. 1985 J. McDougall Theatres of Mind (1986) i. 24 Nor did he believe that mental stasis had no effects other than pathogenic ones. 3. figurative. Morally or spiritually unhealthy; having a deleterious effect on society. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [adjective] demoralizing1794 vitiating1832 abjective1865 pathogenic1969 1969 M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory iv. 85 Poor food, disease, and other pathogenic influences could also cause racial differences. 1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 21/2 Money, says Attali, is ‘pathogenic’. 1987 N.Y. Times 8 Mar. vii. 38/1 America..was more productive, more energetic, more free, largely immune from pathogenic politics and ruinous wars. 1989 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists (ed. 2) xii. 271 Problems are seen to lie in the minority culture itself which is regarded as pathogenic if not pathological. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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