The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.

pathoscorenoun

An estimated numerical measure of pathogenicity

pathosisnoun

A disease; a pathologic condition.

pathospherenoun

All the pathogens of a certain environment, together with their gene pool

pathosymbiontnoun

A pathological symbiont

pathosymbiotenoun

Synonym of pathosymbiont.

pathosystemnoun

An ecosystem based on parasitism

pathoticadj

Being of an argumentative style directed to elicit pathos in the audience.

pathotoxinnoun

A pathogenic toxin

pathotrophnoun

An organism that derives nourishment from a pathogen

pathotropicadj

That is attracted to, or moves toward, a site of disease, especially a cancer

pathotypenoun

Any of a group of organisms (of the same species) that have the same pathogenicity on a specified host.

pathotypicadj

Relating to pathotypes

pathotypicallyadv

With reference to pathotypes

pathovariantnoun

A pathological variant of an organism

pathovarietynoun

Synonym of pathovar.

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