disease

The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.

The theory that certain specialized parts of the brain are to be the first to be damaged in the case of disease, lack of oxygen, or malnutrition.

Any potentially pathological (disease-causing) organism which, under normal circumstances, lives as a non-harming symbiont

Any of the changes that occur when a bacterium adapts to a new pathogenetic niche

plural of pathoadaptation

(biology) The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.

Relating to pathoclisis.

plural of pathobiologist

One who studies pathobiology.