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PATHOLOGICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology
Example:
pathological bodily processes
Synonyms:
diseased; morbid; pathologic; pathological
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition
Example:
a pathological urge to succeed
Classified under:
Similar:
neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)
Derivation:
pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to the practice of pathology
Example:
pathological laboratory
Synonyms:
pathologic; pathological
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)
Derivation:
pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)
Context examples:
A disorder characterized by pathological irregularities in the cardiac conduction system.
(Heart Conduction Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
An assessment of macroscopic pathological findings that are caused by disease.
(Gross Pathological Examination, NCI Thesaurus)
Traumatic or pathological injury to the hip in which the continuity of either the femoral head, femoral neck, intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric regions is broken.
(Hip Fracture, NCI Thesaurus)
Free Radical Formation involves production in normal or pathological processes of chemically unstable, short half-life and highly reactive molecules carrying at least one unpaired or 'free' electron in the outermost electron shell.
(Free Radical Formation, NCI Thesaurus)
An assessment of macroscopic pathological findings.
(Gross Pathological Examination, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A clinico-pathological entity reflecting the multiple polyps throughout the gastrointestinal tract created as a result of involvement by a non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
(Multifocal Lymphomatous Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)
Inappropriate increases in PGC-1a activity have been linked to a number of pathological conditions including heart failure and diabetes.
(PGC1a Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A bone marrow-based plasma cell neoplasm characterized by a serum monoclonal protein and skeletal destruction with osteolytic lesions, pathological fractures, bone pain, hypercalcemia, and anemia.
(Plasma cell myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
VEGF165 is preferentially involved in pathological ocular neovascularisation.
(Pegaptanib, NCI Thesaurus)
A classification system for grading pathological remission based purely on microscopic assessment.
(Miller and Payne Classification, NCI Thesaurus)
