Definitions
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 anddevelopment of adisease . - noun The
mechanism whereby somethingcauses 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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Examples
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JRP are presumed to be a non-inflammatory bowel condition, but the pathogenesis is unknown.
Clinical studies: relationship between IBD and other conditions 2010
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Role of metabolic programming in the pathogenesis of beta-cell failure in postnatal life.
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He stated, "These studies establish free radical mediated damage as an early event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease that can serve as a therapeutic target to slow the progression or perhaps the onset of the disease."
David Perlmutter, M.D.: How Free Radicals Speed Up The Aging Process M.D. David Perlmutter 2011
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Highly organized, universal structures underlying biological and technological networks mediate effective trade-offs among efficiency, robustness and evolvability, with predictable fragilities that can be used to understand disease pathogenesis.
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Increased cell proliferation and, decreased apoptosis in congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation: Insights into pathogenesis.
Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications 2010
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The fellows are taught to appreciate the inherent heterogeneity in our field, as well as the epigenetic phenomena that may be important in pathogenesis complications and outcome.
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The main bad news in the study is the fact that a number of pharmaceutical companies will no longer be providing preferential pricing to middle-income countries like Brazil, China, India and Thailand, Nathan Ford, medical director at MSF's Campaign for Access to Affordable Medicines, said at the launch of the report at the sixth International AIDS Society conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention in Rome.
HIV and Aids: bad news for drug prices in middle-income countries 2011
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The pathogenesis, natural history and prognosis of this inflammation in relation to JRP remain to be determined.
Clinical studies: relationship between IBD and other conditions 2010
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Our department is actively engaged in basic and translational research to understand the pathogenesis of childhood disease and to institute novel methods for earlier and more precise diagnoses resulting in enhanced and tailored therapy.
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The missing link in the pathogenesis of gastroschisis.
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