path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy +

The development of morbid conditions or of a disease.

1. A reference to the capacity for recognizing feelings, emotions, and human passions.
2. Relating to the science of the signs and symptoms of diseases; typical indications of a particular disease.

1. Referring to the capacity for recognizing feelings and emotions.
2. Relating to the science of the signs and symptoms of diseases; typical indications of a particular disease.
3. A reference to being specifically distinctive or characteristic of a disease or pathologic condition; a sign or symptom on which a diagnosis can be made.

1. The study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; a diagnosis.
2. An expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Pathognomy is the study of passions and emotions. It refers to the expression of emotions that are indicated in the voice, gestures, and by features.

While physiognomy is used to predict the overall character of an individual, pathognomy is used to gain clues about the current character.

Physiognomy is based on shapes of the features, and pathognomy on the motions of the features.

A written description of a disease.

A history or description of disease.

1. A doctor who specializes in identifying diseases by studying cells and tissues under a microscope.
2. A medical specialist who strives to determine the essential nature of diseases; especially, of the changes in body tissues and organs that cause or are caused by disease.

1. The study of the nature of diseases with regard to structural and functional changes.
2. The branch of medical science that studies the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
3. Pathology was originally the study of “suffering”.

A diseased or morally degenerate city.

Madness, insanity; moral insanity.

The tendency to belittle the importance of one’s disease.

An apparatus for recording the incidence of disease in a specified locality.

Now considered obsolete: Sir Ronald Ross’ term for the quantitative study of parasitic invasion and infection in individuals or groups of individuals.

The willful, deliberate, and fraudulent feigning, or exaggeration, of the symptoms of illness or injury; which is done for the purpose of consciously achieving some desired objective.

The feigning (faking) of a disease or disorder either deliberately or unconsciously; malingering.