In more extreme cases, a country within the sphere of influence of another may become a subsidiary of that state and serve in effect as a satellite state or de facto colony. The system of spheres of influence by which powerful nations intervene in the affairs of others continues to the present.
mycotic stomatitis refers to that form of stomatitis which results from eating food containing irritant fungi. Bttcher's98 view that gastric ulcer is of mycotic origin, being produced by micrococci, has thus far met with no confirmation.
Something that's pathogenic makes you sick, like a virus you pick up after riding on a bus full of coughing people. Pathogenic is a medical term that describes viruses, bacteria, and other types of germs that can cause some kind of disease. The flu, various parasites, and athlete's foot fungus are all considered to be pathogenic. This word has been used since the late 1800s to mean producing disease, from the French pathogÃ©nique, which in turn came from the Greek word for disease, pathos. Definitions of pathogenic.