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A pathogen is something that gets into the body and makes you ill: a virus, a bacterium, a fungus, a parasite. It is not the illness itself — flu is the disease; the influenza virus is the pathogen. Doctors and biology teachers use the word; ordinary talk usually just says , virus, or bacteria. The pieces already tell you the job: patho- (disease, suffering) + -gen (something that produces), so “disease-maker.” Though actually, not every is a pathogen in a given moment — some live on us until conditions change — but in English, pathogen is the one that causes disease.
From the word’s history
patho- + -gen, the second part from Greek γένος 'birth'.
patho-（病）＋-gen（產生），會引起疾病的東西。
組成patho- (“disease, suffering”) + -gen (“that which produces”). The -gen piece goes back, through Greek génos (“birth, kind”), to an old root meaning lineage / coming into being.
同家族的字
- pathologyshares patho-, from Greek for suffering or disease
- pathogenicthe adjective: able to cause disease
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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pathogennoun/ˈpæθəd͡ʒn̩/
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immunologymedicinepathologyAn agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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