pathological

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  1. adjective Of or relating to pathology.
  2. adjective Relating to or caused by disease.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive: a pathological liar.

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  • It is pathological, and the disease is common to the human race, in all its ramifications. —  IF September, 1952
  • The subjects are physiological, pathological, and anatomical, with more or less of general natural history. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • And yet not pathological, any more than an athlete is who's concentrated on his bodily development at the expense of cultural activities So why d'you hint Joelle and I may find it hard working together She's not only spent her whole remembered life as a linker, she's been part of the evolution of holothetics from the outset. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • On the other hand he excuses Wilde's perversion as pathological, as hereditary “giantism,” and so lightens the darkest shadows just as he has toned down the lights. —  Oscar Wilde, Volume 2
  • In this study, cell kinetics, clinico-pathological characteristics and genetic alterations at the int-2, bcl-1, c-myc, c-erbB-2, and DF3 loci were analyzed and correlated in 54 primary breast carcinomas. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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/pæθəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
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