Health and Medicine: path (disorder; disease)

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  1. pathology
    the branch of medical science that studies diseases
  2. pathological
    relating to the study of diseases
  3. pathologist
    a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
  4. pathogen
    any disease-producing agent
  5. psychopathic
    suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
  6. pathogenic
    able to cause disease
  7. psychopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
  8. sociopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
  9. idiopathic
    (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause
  10. pathogenesis
    the source and development of a disease
Created on Thu Apr 02 16:34:33 EDT 2026 (updated Thu Apr 02 16:34:41 EDT 2026)

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