Pathetical
(Pa*thet"ic*al) a. Pathetic. [R.] — Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. — Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.
Pathetism
(Path"e*tism) n. [Cf. F. pathétisme.] See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.
Pathfinder
(Path"find`er) n. One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker.
J. Burroughs. Pathic
(Path"ic) n. [L. pathicus, Gr. passive, fr. to suffer] A male who submits to the crime against
nature; a catamite. [R.] B. Jonson.
Pathic
(Path"ic), a. Passive; suffering.
Pathless
(Path"less) a. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way.
Milton. Pathmaker
(Path"mak`er) n. One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
Pathogene
(Path"o*gene) n. [See Pathogenic.] (Biol.) One of a class of virulent microörganisms or
bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a
pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; — opposed to zymogene.
Pathogenesis
(Path`o*gen"e*sis) n. (Med.) Pathogeny.
Pathogenetic
(Path`o*ge*net"ic) a. (Med.) Pathogenic.
Pathogenic
(Path`o*gen"ic) a. [Gr. disease + the root of birth.] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting
disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
Pathogeny
(Pa*thog"e*ny) n. (Med.) (a) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as,
the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled. (b) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation
and development of disease.
Pathognomonic
(Pa*thog`no*mon"ic) a. [Gr. skilled in judging of diseases; a disease + skilled: cf. F.
pathognomonique. See Gnomic.] (Med.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating
with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy.
Arbuthnot. Pathognomy
(Pa*thog"no*my) n. [Gr. passion + a judgment, fr. to know.] Expression of the passions; the
science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.
Pathologic
(Path`o*log"ic Path`o*log"ic*al) a. pathologique.]—> Of or pertaining to pathology. — Path`o*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Pathologist
(Pa*thol"o*gist) n. [Cf. F. pathologiste.] One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as,
the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
Pathology
(Pa*thol"o*gy) n.; pl. Pathologies [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]
(Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of
particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology.
Its departments are nosology, ætiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which
treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
