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Today's Word "Nosopoetic"

Disease causing on

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nosopoetic \no-seh-po-ET-ik\ (adjective) - Disease-causing, disease producing, infectious.

"One of the goals of early manned space flights was to test for any nosopoetic effects of extended periods of weightlessness."

 

Today's word comes to us, courtesy of Latin and French, from Greek nosopoi(etik)os "causing illness," which consists of nosos "illness" + poi(etik)os "making, producing." It is related to nosophobia "the fear of disease," nosology "the classification of diseases," nosotrophy "the promotion of disease," and nosography "the description of diseases."


 

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