Meaning & use
Nonpathogenic
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Not capable of causing disease.
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Most bacteria in the human gut are nonpathogenic and even beneficial.
The vaccine uses a nonpathogenic virus to trigger an immune response safely.
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Formed by adding the negative prefix 'non-' to 'pathogenic', from the Greek 'pathos' (suffering) and 'genic' (producing).
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