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Topic: MEDICINE

Date: 1800-1900
Language: Greek
Origin: pathos ( PATHOS) + English -gen 'producing'

pathogen

 noun
     
path‧o‧gen [countable] technical
MIHBM something that causes disease in your body
—pathogenic adjective
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