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pathogenic, a. (Formerly at pathogenesis n.)|pæθəʊˈdʒɛnɪk|
[f. patho- + -genic.]
1. a. Med. and Bot. Producing, or relating to the production of, physical disease.
1852Th. Ross Humboldt's Trav. II. xx. 246 In the torrid zone..the people multiply pathogenic causes at will. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 70 Under ordinary pathogenic conditions suppuration is induced by the growth of micro-organisms within the tissues. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 1030/1 It appears that these proteins..are possibly involved in the defence mechanism set up by the plant against pathogenic bacteria. 1987J. Diski Rainforest iii. 36 We will deal with..the natural history of man's diseases caused by pathogenic organisms.
b. Psychol. Causing, or tending to cause, mental illness; (potentially) psychologically disturbing.
1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 404/2 Pathogenic. 1950E. H. Erikson Childhood & Society iv. viii. 268 Mothers who drive on but cannot let go (they are the pathogenic, the ‘overprotective’ ones). 1953E. Jones Life & Work Freud I. xi. 273 The ‘predisposition’ necessary for the later traumatic event to become pathogenic. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits iii. 46 It was the experience inaugurated with this hysterical patient that led them to the discovery of the pathogenic event dubbed the traumatic experience. 1985J. McDougall Theatres of Mind (1986) i. 24 Nor did he believe that mental stasis had no effects other than pathogenic ones.
2. fig. Morally or spiritually unhealthy; having a deleterious effect on society.
1969M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory iv. 85 Poor food, disease, and other pathogenic influences could also cause racial differences. 1976E. Fromm To have or to Be? (1979) 17 Our ways of living are pathogenic and eventually produce a sick person and, thus, a sick society. 1979London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 21/2 Money, says Attali, is ‘pathogenic’. 1987N.Y. Times 8 Mar. vii. 38/1 America..was more productive, more energetic, more free, largely immune from pathogenic politics and ruinous wars. 1988New Republic 5 Sept. 34/3 He [sc. Aleksander Wat] proceeds to define communism as naturally ‘pathogenic’.
Hence pathoˈgenically adv.; pathogenicity n. |-dʒɪˈnɪsɪtɪ|, the state of being pathogenic; the degree to which something is pathogenic.
1899A. C. Houston in Nature 7 Sept. 434/2 Allowing..virulent bacilli..to develop and display their full power of pathogenicity. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 559 The cells pathogenically affected by a toxin may not be the cells of origin or antitoxin. 1958New Biol. XXVII. 62 During epidemics there is little doubt regarding the pathogenicity of the yeasts. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 647/1 Tests of pathogenicity should be carried out on animals. |