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

Abnormal morphology (the form and structure of a particular organism, organ, or part).

1. In psychoanalysis, a neurosis that is centered around a morbid preoccupation with a diseased organ.
2. Hysterical symptoms due to a chronic disease process.

The sum of knowledge regarding the laws of disease.

1. Adapting oneself to a disease.
2. Adjustment of habits to conditions made mandatory by some chronic disease.
3. An excessive, abnormal desire to be sick; also nosophilia.

Dread, or excessive fear, of getting any kind of a disease.

The transmission of a disease by insects, rodents, etc.

Conveying or causing a disease.

1. The physiological processes associated with disease, injury, or disordered function; the study of such processes.
2. The disturbance of function that a disease causes in an organ, as distinct from any changes in structure that might be caused.
3. Deranged function in an individual or an organ that is due to a disease; a pathophysiologic alteration is a change in function as distinguished from a structural defect.

Determining the form of a disease.

A tendency to magnify the importance of one's disease.

1. A speech, figure of speech, or rhetorical device aimed to stimulate the passions.
2. The excitation of passion by rhetoric or poetry.

The causation of disease; the tendency of an individual to become ill.

The psychology of mental diseases.

A psychosis involving bodily functions; such as, those arising from organic diseases, including brain tumors, encephalitis, etc.

A quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow; a feeling of sympathy or pity. Pathos and pity have in common the idea of tender emotion aroused by suffering or distress.

Pathos is a quality, as in literature and art, that arouses feelings of pity or sorrow. Bathos is the sudden shift in speech or writing from a lofty level to a commonplace one, for contrast or humor, or overdone sentiment that has become melodramatic or maudlin: “The actors played the old tear-jerker for bathos and were rewarded with many laughs.”