英语词汇“pathogen”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A pathogen is a tiny living organism, such as a bacterium or virus, that makes people sick. Washing your hands frequently helps you avoid the pathogens that can make you sick.

Pathos is the Greek word for disease and -genes means "born of." So, a pathogen is something that causes disease, like a virus like the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. At summer picnics, people are cautious about keeping certain foods like potato salad in coolers with ice — the eggs in such dishes spoil quickly out in the heat, introducing pathogens that can make people sick.

WORD FAMILY

pathogen: pathogenic, pathogens+/pathogenic: pathogenically

USAGE EXAMPLES

Also called pneumococcus, this pathogen is the most common perpetrator of community-acquired pneumonia, which is pneumonia that people get outside hospitals and nursing homes.

Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)

In the gut, the lymphocytes maintain a barrier against pathogens.

Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)

"Every year we lose enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people to pathogens and parasites," he says.

BBC(Dec 30, 2016)

n any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

Hyper

micro-organism, microorganism

any organism of microscopic size

infectious agent, infective agent

an agent capable of producing infection

单词	pathogen
释义	pathogen (once / 12960 pages) n A pathogen is a tiny living organism, such as a bacterium or virus, that makes people sick. Washing your hands frequently helps you avoid the pathogens that can make you sick. Pathos is the Greek word for disease and -genes means "born of." So, a pathogen is something that causes disease, like a virus like the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. At summer picnics, people are cautious about keeping certain foods like potato salad in coolers with ice — the eggs in such dishes spoil quickly out in the heat, introducing pathogens that can make people sick. WORD FAMILY pathogen: pathogenic, pathogens+/pathogenic: pathogenically USAGE EXAMPLES Also called pneumococcus, this pathogen is the most common perpetrator of community-acquired pneumonia, which is pneumonia that people get outside hospitals and nursing homes. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) In the gut, the lymphocytes maintain a barrier against pathogens. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) "Every year we lose enough food to feed hundreds of millions of people to pathogens and parasites," he says. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) n any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism) Hyper micro-organism, microorganism any organism of microscopic size infectious agent, infective agent an agent capable of producing infection
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