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Pathogenic.

Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

y or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. Arbuthnot.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Of or pertaining to pathology. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

he like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.

he main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively. "The penthouse of his eyes." Sir W. Scott.

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.…

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.

Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.

The art or process of producing photolithographs.

Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; -- said of all the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonant consonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc.

An instrument for measuring vocal sounds. Whewell.