Bacterial parasites that cause disease are called pathogens. Among bacterial plant diseases are leaf spot, fire blight, and wilts; animal diseases caused by bacteria include tuberculosis, cholera, syphilis, typhoid fever, and tetanus.
Definition of cascade 1: a steep usually small fall of water; especially: one of a series 2 a: something arranged or occurring in a series or in a succession of stages so that each stage derives from or acts upon the product of the preceding
see monopolar electrocoagulation. coagulation cascade. the sequence of enzymatic reactions leading to the formation of a blood clot. Each is initiated by the preceding and, in turn, produces the enzyme that catalyzes the next with an amplification of the process as it progresses.cerebrospinal coagulation.oagulation cascade, the series of steps beginning with activation of the intrinsic or extrinsic pathways of coagulation, or of one of the related alternative pathways, and proceeding through the common pathway of coagulation to the formation of the fibrin clot.