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单词 pythogenic
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pythogenicadj.

Brit. /ˌpʌɪθə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnɪk/, U.S. /ˌpaɪθoʊˈdʒɛnɪk/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πύθειν , -genic comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πύθειν to cause to rot ( < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit pūy- to rot, Lithuanian pūdyti to cause to rot; ultimately < the same Indo-European base as foul adj.) + -genic comb. form.The alleged Greek etymon *πύθογενης cited by Murchison does not appear to be attested.
Medicine. Now historical.
Generated by decomposing organic material or by decay (esp. in pythogenic fever n. at Compounds); of or relating to such generation.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > caused by corruption or putridness
putredinal1574
putredinous1708
pythogenic1858
pythogenetic1863
1858 C. Murchison in Jrnl. Royal Medico-chirurg. Soc. 41 221 (note) In the course of this essay I shall bring forward what I consider positive proofs that this fever is produced by emanations from decaying organic matter; and I would therefore suggest for it the appellation of ‘pythogenic fever’.
1874 Times 9 Nov. 7/5 He discusses the so-called ‘pythogenic’ or putrescent theory.
1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air i. 15 It was..no problematical pythogenic gas—that killed the worms, but a definite organism.
1938 Isis 28 123 The more common view related infectious disease to microörganisms loosely; and in England the ‘pythogenic’ theory was much in favor.
1993 A. Hardy Epidemic Streets vi. 165 Murchison's pythogenic theory stressed..the danger of faecal effluvia.

Compounds

pythogenic fever n. typhoid fever.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid
putrid fever1597
pestilential fever1617
tabardillo1624
synochus1625
Hungaric fever1661
typhus1664
military fever1736
jail distemper1745
hospital fever1750
jail-fever1754
ship-fever1758
typhus fever1780
typhoid fever1789
gastric fever1802
dothinenteritis1826
enteric fever1833
typhoid1837
pythogenic fever1858
thanatotyphus1860
typh fever1861
enteric1872
famine-fever1876
Red River fever1878
laryngo-typhus1888
laryngo-typhoid1896
typh fever1900
paratyphoid1904
1858 [see main sense].
1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. iv. 169 No fear of pythogenic fever here!
1920 C. B. Ker Infectious Dis. (ed. 2) 257 Murchison, believing that the disease could originate de novo, from the mere putrefaction of sewage, suggested the name ‘pythogenic fever’, a term which has met with no support.

Derivatives

pythogenesis n. Obsolete rare generation by decay or decomposing matter.
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1877 J. M. Fothergill Practitioner's Handbk. Treatm. p. xix Pythogenesis.—Sewerage.—Earth closets.
pythogeˈnetic adj. now disused = pythogenic adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > caused by corruption or putridness
putredinal1574
putredinous1708
pythogenic1858
pythogenetic1863
1863 Lancet 31 Oct. 518/1 The two Edinburgh professors, Christison and Bennett, have come forward somewhat unexpectedly to testify against the alleged pythogenetic origin of disease.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 792 The pythogenetic theory of Murchison..became untenable.
1903 Lancet 26 Dec. 1834/2 My old friends Murchison and Hart believed, the one that the disease arose from ‘dirt’, was pythogenetic, and the other that it was most frequently connected with polluted water, being, let us say, hydrogenetic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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