| 单词 | disease-causing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdisease-causing C2. With participles, forming compounds in which disease expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in disease-causing, disease-producing, etc. Also similarly with agent nouns, as in disease-maker, etc. ΚΠ 1649 T. Diconson in J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia sig. a2 Whence subtilely thou 'rt wont to ken & trace The Critciall [sic] Disease-discovering Face. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vi. 128 In the New Hebrides, there was a colony of disease-makers. 1886 Athenæum 7 Aug. 178/1 The coffee tree is the patient, the fungus..is the disease-causing agent. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 5/1 The invasion of the body by disease-producing organisms. 1943 Life 20 Sept. 79/2 Running a close second to Anopheles as a disease-spreader is Aëdes aegypti. 2015 Atlantic Mar. 36/2 By inserting human genes into plants, scientists have been able to create disease-fighting proteins called ‘plantibodies,’ which work just like the antibodies that the human immune system makes. < as lemmas |
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