different between pathogenic vs morbific
pathogenic
English
Etymology
patho- +? -genic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?n?k
Adjective
pathogenic (comparative more pathogenic, superlative most pathogenic)
- (pathology) Able to cause (harmful) disease.
- While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.
- (music) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.
Related terms
- pathology
Derived terms
Translations
pathogenic From the web:
- what pathogenic microbe causes aids
- what pathogenic agent causes the flu
- what pathogenic means
morbific
English
Alternative forms
- morbifick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).
Adjective
morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)
- That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. [from 17th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 240:
- He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 240:
- Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. [from 17th c.]
morbific From the web:
- what does morbific mean
- what does morbific
- what is morbific material
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