path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy +
(Greek: feeling, sensation, perception; suffering, disease, disorder; a system of treatment of disease)
In medicine, some of these elements usually mean “one who suffers from a disease of, or one who treats a disease”; so, they should not be confused with the “feeling” words which are also shown on these pages.
stomatopathy
Any disease of the oral cavity or mouth.
stratepathy
Diseases connected with military service.
sympathetic
1. Pertaining to, caused by, or exhibiting sympathy.
2. A sympathetic nerve or the sympathetic nervous system (a set or series of interconnected or interdependent parts of entities, objects, organs, or organisms) that function together in a common purpose or produce results impossible of achievement by one of them acting or operating alone.
sympathicopathy
Any disease due to a disorder of the sympathetic or autonomic nervous system.
sympathism, sympathist
1. Susceptibility to hypnotic influence; suggestibility.
2. The alleged transfer of feelings from one person to another.
sympathoadrenal
Relating to the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system and the medulla of the adrenal gland, as the postganglionic neurons.
sympathoblast, sympathicoblast
An embryonic cell that develops into a sympathetic nerve cell.
sympathoblastoma, sympathicoblastoma
A neuroblastoma arising in one of the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system.
sympathogone
A single cell of the kind referred to collectively as sympathogonia or primitive cells of the sympathetic nervous system.
sympathogonia (pl)
Primitive cells of the sympathetic nervous system derived from neuroblasts of the neural crest.
They have dense nuclei, rich in chromatin, and only a thin rim of cytoplasm, and differentiate to form along one line ganglion cells and along another line chromaffin cells.
sympathogonioma, neuroblastoma
A leading childhood form of cancer that arises in the adrenal gland or in tissue in the nervous system that is related to the adrenal gland.
It is considered to be the most common solid tumor outside the brain in infants and children.
sympathogonium (s)
Undifferentiated embryonic cells that develop into sympathetic nerve cells.
sympatholytic
1. Denoting antagonism (interaction between chemicals in which one partially or completely inhibits the effect of the other) to or inhibition of adrenergic nerve activity.
sympathomimetic
1. A description of a drug that stimulates the sympathetic nervous system or produces physiological effects similar to it.
2. Producing effects resembling those of impulses transmitted by the postganglionic fibers of the sympathetic nervous system.
sympathy, sympathize, sympathizer
1. Sharing of a compassion for another person’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
2. An influence produced in any organ by disease or disorder in another part.
3. A relation which exists between the mind and the body, causing the one to be affected by the other.
Sympathy
1. What a girl offers to another in exchange for details.
2. A quality that’s never wasted except when you give it to yourself.
3. What you give to someone when you don’t want to loan him/her any money.
—Based on quotes by Evan Esar
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