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Definition of Morbific
1. Adjective. Able to cause disease. "Pathogenic bacteria"
Similar to: Unhealthful
Derivative terms: Infect, Infect, Pathogen
Definition of Morbific
1. a. Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
Definition of Morbific
1. Adjective. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Morbific
1. causing disease [adj]
Medical Definition of Morbific
1. Synonym: pathogenic. Origin: L. Morbus, disease, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morbific
Literary usage of Morbific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"On the Direct Influence of Medicinal and morbific Agents ... in attempting to
show that the action of morbific agents—in the production of disease and that ..."
2. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"We then introduce into the same organ another class of morbific agents that are
... Hence, also, the variety in the remedial or morbific virtues of many ..."
3. On the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors, in Health and Disease by William Benjamin Carpenter (1858)
"V. — RESISTANCE TO morbific AGENCIES.' 144. It is a common idea, and one apparently
supported by adequate evidence, that such a use of fermented liquors as ..."
4. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"Affinity of morbific and therapeutic agents for special organs ... whose authority
in matters of the sort will not be impugned, remarked: " All morbific ..."
5. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"Fifthly, Some fads alledged in proof of a morbific matter, ... Sixthly, Some
arguments brought in favour of a morbific matter are founded upon a ..."
6. Diseases of Man: Data of Their Nomenclature, Classification & Genesis by John William Severin Gouley (1888)
"Analysis of some of the terms used in general pathology and of those contained
in the synopsis of morbid states and morbific processes, together with ..."
7. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Spontaneous Development of morbific Germs.—Infection. ... morbific Matter.—Conditions
nf Contagion: inherent in Individuals and in Germs. ..."
8. Medical and Physiological Commentaries by Martyn Paine (1840)
"IT is not only important in a physiological, but practical sense, to understand
the principles through which morbific agents establish their impressions. ..."
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