pathogenic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Able to cause (harmful) disease.

   While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.

2. 2
   adj

   Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.

   Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.

From patho- + -genic.

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