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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The development of a diseased or morbid condition.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mode of production or development of a disease.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Pathogeny.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The origin and development of a disease.
  • noun The mechanism whereby something causes a disease.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the origination and development of a disease

Etymologies

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From patho- + -genesis.

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