pathological
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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patológico
- The medical team studied the pathological changes in the tissue to better understand the disease.
- pathological condition
- pathological process
- pathological examination
And I would like to bridge the gap between its normal function and its pathological function.
- And I would like to bridge the gap between its normal function and its pathological function.
- Most of our attention when we talk about these drugs are focused on this small pathological group.
Examples
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The House of Skin began its existence as a residential clinic for wealthy patients who were treated for severely pathological skin conditions induced by contemporary cosmetics.
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We must check the intestines for pathological clues.
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Yet such research increasingly shows pathological states present in the normal population.
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The heat shock protein has to bind to that particular pathological protein, right?
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If it is too much or too little, this is pathological or abnormal.
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Immune responses to cancer are an attack on self cells that have certain pathological characteristics.
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ROS play a central role in various pathological conditions of the inner ear.
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Rehabilitation programs typically focus on prevention and education to avoid the pathological processes that result in skin breakdown.
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The relative importance of various insults and the pathological mechanisms of stunting are not known.
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Asthma and COPD are regarded as separate diseases, yet they have physiological and pathological similarities.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.7
Having an illness or infection that makes it not healthy
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7.7
Relating to or caused by illness
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Related to or caused by disease
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9.2
Related to body changes that happen because of disease or injury
Relating to illness or how illnesses develop
About how the body changes and works during an illness
Relating to abnormal body processes that happen in disease or injury
Relating to the study of body tissues to find disease
Relating to the body's structure and to disease in its tissues for medical diagnosis
Relating to both patient symptoms and disease changes in parts of the body
About both how a disease shows in people and how it changes their body
Compounds
How Pathological
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pathological comes from the root path meaning 'disease' or 'suffering' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', like in biology. So pathological in medicine means 'about disease' or 'caused by disease'.