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Definition: Pathogen |
PathogenNoun1. Any disease-producing agent especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | An organism, essentially microscopic, or a virus, directly capable of causing disease. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Any disease-producing microorganism. (references) |
Hydrologic | A disease-producing agent; usually applied to a living organism. Generally, any viruses, bacteria, or fungi that cause disease. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are many types of Pathogens. What follows is a beta list of the known categories of pathogens
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pathogen."
Crosswords: Pathogen |
| English words defined with "pathogen": animal virus ♦ carrier, chancre, confirming ♦ immune carrier ♦ plant virus, positive, predisposition ♦ sensitivity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pathogen": barren conditions, barrier conditions, Burkholderia cepacia ♦ Capnocytophaga, Citrobacter freundii, contained conditions ♦ Haemophilus ducreyi ♦ infection court ♦ Naegleria, Naegleria fowleri ♦ pathogen resistant to antibiotics, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas putida, Pythium aphanidermatum ♦ qualified pathogen free, qualified pathogen free status ♦ Rhizoctonia ♦ Sanitation standard operating procedures, Serratia, Serratia marcescens, specific pathogen free, Sporothrix, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus equi, Streptococcus suis ♦ virus tested material ♦ Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pathogen" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (pathogen, pathogenic). |
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 | Ingestion of V. cholera contaminated water is a typical mode of pathogen transmission.Credit: CDC. |  | The neutrophils are apparently phagocytizing bacteria. The paired N. gonorrhoeae diplococci is the etiologic pathogen, a bacterium that grows and multiplies quickly in moist, warm areas of the body like the cervix, urethra, mouth, or rectum.Credit: CDC. |
 | Transfer of virus solution, in this case an acute hemorrhagic fever pathogen, within a containment cabinet in maximum containment laboratory.Credit: CDC. |  | Actinomyces sp. normally found in the oral cavity is an opportunistic pathogen usually seen only in immunosuppressed patients. Lesions involve long standing swelling, suppuration and the formation of an abscess or granuloma.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Ehrlichia ewingii is the most recently recognized human pathogen. (references) | |
The pathogen is often referred to as the agent of HGE or the HGE agent. (references) | ||
In 1953, the first ehrlichial pathogen of humans was identified in Japan. (references) | ||
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| "Pathogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pathogen" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pathogen": pathogen resistant to antibiotics ♦ qualified pathogen free ♦ qualified pathogen free status ♦ specific pathogen free. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pathogen | 54 |
bloodborne pathogen | 20 |
blood borne pathogen | 4 |
pathogen photo shop | 4 |
pathogen testing | 3 |
pathogen detection | 3 |
human pathogen | 2 |
definition pathogen | 2 |
pathogen reduction | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pathogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sëmundjeshkaktues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 病原"物, 病 (cause of disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | patogen (pathogenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | pathogeen (pathogenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | patogeeni, taudinaiheuttaja (causative agent of disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pathogène (pathogenic), pathogène, agent pathogène. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Krankheitserreger (causative agent of disease, disease-causing agent, germ, pathogenic agent, pathogenic germ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παθογόνος (pathogenic), παθογόνο,παθογόνος μικροοοργανισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מחולל מחל". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | agente patogeno (contaminant, pathogens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 病原" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | びょう'"たい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 병원체. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athogenpay patogéneo, patógeno, organismo patogénico. (various references) patogen (pathogenetic, pathogenic). (various references) болезнетворный микроорганизм, патогенный (nosogenic, pathogenic), патоген. (various references) patógeno (pathogenetic, pathogenic). (various references) patogen (pathogenic), sjukdomsalstrare. (various references) хвороботворний мікроорганизм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pathogen": pathogeneses, pathogenesis, pathogenetic, pathogenic, pathogenicities, pathogenicity, pathogens. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pathogen": phytopathogen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pathogen": cytopathogenic, cytopathogenicities, cytopathogenicity, enteropathogenic, nonpathogenic, phytopathogenic, phytopathogens. (additional references) | |
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"Pathogen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Latlogan, Patchog, patheogen, pathohgen, pathoigen, pictogen, pishogue, spathiger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pathogen" (pronounced pa"thujun) |
| 4 | -u j u n | antigen, carcinogen, estrogen, glycogen, halogen, hydrogen, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, plasminogen. |
| 3 | -j u n | allergen, bludgeon, burgeon, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, gudgeon, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, pigeon, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: heptagon. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: phaeton, phonate. | |
-2 letters: hapten, potage, teopan. | |
-3 letters: agent, agone, atone, genoa, hogan, neath, netop, oaten, paeon, panto, paten, pengo, phage, phone, tango, thane, thegn, thong, togae, tonga, tophe. | |
-4 letters: aeon, agon, ante, atop, eath, epha, etna, gaen, gane, gape, gate, gent, geta, ghat, gnat, goat, gone, haen, haet, hang, hant, hate, heap, heat, hent, hone, hong, hope, nape, neap, neat, nope, nota, note, oath, opah, open, page, pane, pang, pant, pate, path, peag, pean, peat, pent, peon, phat, phon, phot, poet, pone, pong, tang, tape, tepa, thae, than, then, toea, toga, tone, tong, tope, toph. | |
-5 letters: age, ago, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, eat, ego, eng, eon, eta, eth, gae, gan, gap, gat, gen, get, goa, got, hae, hag, hao, hap, hat, hen, hep, het, hoe, hog, hon, hop, hot, nae, nag, nah, nap, net, nog, noh, not, nth, oat, one, ope, opt, pah, pan, pat, pea, peg, peh, pen, pet, pht, poh, pot, tae, tag, tan, tao, tap, tea, teg, ten, the, tho, toe, tog, ton, top. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: heptagons, pathogens. | |
+2 letters: heptagonal, pathogenic. | |
+3 letters: ethnography, stenography. | |
+4 letters: ethnographer, ethnographic, magnetograph, outpreaching, pathogeneses, pathogenesis, pathogenetic, photoengrave, photomontage, stenographer, stenographic. | |
+5 letters: anthropogenic, apotheosizing, cinematograph, entomophagous, ethnographers, ethnographies, hectographing, hypothecating, magnetographs, magnetosphere, nonpathogenic, pathogenicity, photoengraved, photoengraver, photoengraves, photomontages, photonegative, phytopathogen, stenographers, stenographies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 68 6F 67 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- - .... --- --. . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01101000 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t h o g e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0068 006F 0067 0065 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5067867481737180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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