English words for 'Synonym of pathogen.'
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noun
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
adj
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
- derived or originating externally
adj
- of or relating to infection
- (pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
- (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- easily spread
- (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
- (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
noun
- (microbiology) Abbreviation of strain.
- (programming) Abbreviation of string (“sequence of text characters”).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of stremma(ta), a Greek unit of land area now equivalent to the decare (1000 m²).
- Abbreviation of strength.
- (music) Abbreviation of string(s).
- (historical) Abbreviation of steamer, a vessel propelled by steam.
- Abbreviation of street.
adj
adv
noun
- (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
- Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
- aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
noun
- (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
- A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
- A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
- An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- moral corruption or contamination
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
noun
- (medicine) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.
- (biology, medicine, uncountable) Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
- (biology, medicine, countable) Any of various such diseases; most especially:
- infection by a disease-causing ameba
noun
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
verb
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
- to suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
verb
- (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
- (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
- (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
- communicate a disease to
- affect in a contagious way
- corrupt with ideas or an ideology
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
- (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
- (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
adj
- (medicine, of an infection) Not known to be caused by any specific pathogen.
- (medicine, of a person's immunity) Not caused by previous infection or vaccination, and/or affecting more than one antigen.
- (medicine, of an antimicrobial) Not specific to one pathogen; affecting multiple strains or species of pathogen.
- (medicine, of a stain in microscopy) That does not just stain one type of tissue.
- (medicine, of a symptom or other finding) Not specific to one possible cause; caused by any of various possible causes.
- not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides
noun
- (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
- An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
- (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the codomain of a ring homomorphism) The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
- (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
noun
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
noun
- (microbiology) Abbreviation of strain.
- (programming) Abbreviation of string (“sequence of text characters”).
- (uncountable) Abbreviation of stremma(ta), a Greek unit of land area now equivalent to the decare (1000 m²).
- Abbreviation of strength.
- (music) Abbreviation of string(s).
- (historical) Abbreviation of steamer, a vessel propelled by steam.
- Abbreviation of street.
adj
adv
noun
- (figurative, by extension) Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
- Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
- aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
noun
- (pathology) The act or process of infecting.
- A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
- A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
- An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
- (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
- moral corruption or contamination
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
- the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
noun
- (medicine) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.
- (biology, medicine, uncountable) Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
- (biology, medicine, countable) Any of various such diseases; most especially:
- infection by a disease-causing ameba
noun
- (biology) A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- (countable, physics) Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (countable, phonetics, loosely) A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- (countable, phonetics, strictly) The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
- (biology) Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- (Scots law) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
- (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
- special emphasis attached to something
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
- (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
verb
- (transitive) To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- (transitive) To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- (transitive) To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- (transitive) To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- (transitive) To emphasise (words in speaking).
- (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
- to suffer from stress
- test the limits of
- put stress on; utter with an accent
- to stress, single out as important
noun
- (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
- An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
- (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the codomain of a ring homomorphism) The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
- (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
- (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”).
- (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
- (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
- the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
- the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
- (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
verb
- (transitive) To contaminate (an object or substance) with a pathogen.
- (transitive) To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
- (transitive) To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion, or to communicate a feeling to others, or a feeling communicating itself to others.
- communicate a disease to
- affect in a contagious way
- corrupt with ideas or an ideology
- contaminate with a disease or microorganism
adj
adj
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
- derived or originating externally
adj
- of or relating to infection
- (pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).
- (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens.
- caused by infection or capable of causing infection
- easily spread
- (informal) Memorable and invoking excitement or interest.
- (of feelings and behaviour) Spreading quickly from one person to another.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
- (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
- (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
adj
- (medicine, of an infection) Not known to be caused by any specific pathogen.
- (medicine, of a person's immunity) Not caused by previous infection or vaccination, and/or affecting more than one antigen.
- (medicine, of an antimicrobial) Not specific to one pathogen; affecting multiple strains or species of pathogen.
- (medicine, of a stain in microscopy) That does not just stain one type of tissue.
- (medicine, of a symptom or other finding) Not specific to one possible cause; caused by any of various possible causes.
- not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides