pathological process
- noun
- /ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈprəʊsɛs/
- Specialized
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proceso patológico
- Rehabilitation programs typically focus on prevention and education to avoid the pathological processes that result in skin breakdown.
- results from pathological process
Examples
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Additionally, multiple cervical spine vertebral bodies were involved in this pathological process, with the fourth cervical body being the most remarkable.
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Additional clinical features that may indicate a pathological process include nipple changes, including retraction or bloody discharge.
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That's the whole pathological process.
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Their current physical difficulties are related to the original pathological process as well as to postural deformities that have developed gradually.
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The pathological process is also wavelength dependent (Organisciak and Vaughan 2010).
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But foremost, it is the lack of clearly identified underlying pathological processes causing the diverse outward manifestations that distinguishes psychiatric from physical diagnoses.
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It has been widely assumed that Beta/A4 results from pathological processes, i.e., that it is an abnormal cleavage product.
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An effective rehabilitation program avoids the pathological processes that result in skin trauma and breakdown and encourages load tolerance and adaptation, changes in the body wall so that the tissues do not enter an irreversible degenerative pathological process.
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An effective rehabilitation program avoids the pathological processes that result in skin trauma and breakdown and encourages load tolerance and adaptation, changes in the body wall so that the tissues do not enter an irreversible degenerative pathological process.
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The accumulation of alpha-synuclein aggregates has been proposed as one of the major pathological processes in Parkinson's disease.
Synonyms
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8.9
The way a disease starts and gets worse
A change in the body caused by disease
How Harmful
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3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pathological' (related to disease) modifies 'process' (a sequence of changes), so a disease-related sequence of changes is straightforwardly inferred from the parts. This adjective+noun combination follows regular English formation and similar structures exist in other languages, so learners who know both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Pathological process combines pathological (a word that means related to 'disease' or 'suffering') and process (a set of steps). Imagine parts of the body starting to fail one after another because of illness; those failing steps are the pathological process, so it means 'a series of changes in the body caused by disease'.