The Collaborative International Dictionary
pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]
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(Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Note: 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, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
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(Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body.
--Virchow.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of pathology English)
Usage examples of "pathologies".
But, for the record, let me state quite clearly that although for various reasons I will probably never put quite the same emphasis on F-0 that Grof does, I nevertheless endorse entirely his general conclusions about the nature, the subphases, the formations and malformations, the pathologies, and the possible types of influence of this crucial fulcrum.
The reliving and working-through can indeed dissolve various pathologies created by the repression or submergence of the past structures.
Too, in this culture, where there were such men, I did not think there was any real danger of susceptibility to the debilitating, antibiological pathologies of Earth.
Each interior development that we will be following is, of course, governed by the twenty tenets (though not by those alone), and thus each development involves a new and creative emergence, a new transcendence, a new depth, a new interiority, a new differentiation/integration, a greater degree of relative autonomy (greater capacity for both agency and for communion), a greater degree of consciousness, a greater total embracewith new fears, new anxieties, new needs, new scarcities, new desires, new moral engagements in new shared worldviews, and the ever-present possibility of new and higher pathologies and distortions.
Yes, pathologies at fulcrum-0 can influence, but do not cause, higher fulcrums.
Nor am I saying that his difficulty is without doubt mental or emotional in origin—there are several physical pathologies that could easily be responsible.
It would be like going back to the sterilities, the barrenesses, the pathologies, of Earth.
My reflections were colored, in effect, by the pathologies of a far-off world.
Slips of note paper marked them, and the briefest perusal showed him they all contained articles dealing with either speculations on blood pathologies which could have been the source of vampire legends, case studies of pathologically related increases in psychic abilities, or obscure blood disorders.
Whatever alien pathologies lingered in their tainted blood, she had no desire to permit them further existence, even in the allegedly controlled conditions of a laboratory.
No unusual wounds or pathologies, at least none detectable after embalming and almost ten years in the ground.
That and your talents, your allergies, your tame pathologies, the things that make you a secret legend in the world of marketing.
Her talents, which Bigend calls her tame pathologies, had carried her along, and gradually she'd let them define the nature of what it was that she did.