path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy

A reference to a skin disease: Part of Susan's medical research involved dermatopathic studies in which disorders or infections of the skin were examined.

The science of cutaneous disorders: Dermatopathology particularly pertains to the study of skin illnesses and the causes of such skin abnormalities.

Any skin disease; dermatopyhia: When Marsha noticed a strange spot on her arm, she went to her doctor who diagnosed it as a condition of dermatopathy and sent her to a specialist.

Pertaining to skin disorders: dermotopathic: When Marsha noticed a strange spot on her arm, she went to her doctor who diagnosed it as being a dermopathic condition and sent her to a specialist for a further examination.

In pathology, a disorder of the skin; dermatopathy: There are different types of dermopathies, among them are diabetic dermopathy, restrictive dermopathy, and narcotic dermopathy.

Cutaneous lesions of syphilis: The second stage of the the venereal disease development of syphilis occurs with a rash all over the body, termed dermosyphilopathy.

The study of diseases that affect the ligaments or tendons: Desmopathology involves the research of abnormalities of the tough fibrous tissues connecting bones or cartilages, or those connecting muscles with bones.

Any disease affecting the ligaments: Part of Mandy's medical studies was concerned with desmopathy, or the connecting tissues between muscles and bones, or between bones or cartilages.

Concerning a sympathetic affection of any region of a body: Jane acquired a headache after eating a large meal at the restaurant, which her doctor told her later was a deuteropathic symptom of indulging in too much food and wine the evening before.

A secondary disease or symptom of a disease that results from another infection in the body: Deuteropathy is an uncommon or outdated term for any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.

1. An outdated medical term meaning the cure or treatment of a disease by refraining from liquids; a thirst cure: The doctor suggested Jack should have medical care, or a dipsopathy remedy, particularly by abstaining from drinking any alcohol.
2. Alcoholism: Tom had a case of dipsopathy and had to begin his treatment at the hospital.

A disease of a disk, especially of an invertebral disk: Gary had pains in his back and his doctor described it as being a case of discopathy, an illness of a fibrocartilaginous disk situated between the vertebrae of his backbone.

Descriptive of someone who exhibits antipathy: Adam's neighbor was dyspathetic and very unpleasant, was quite disagreeable, and lacked sympathy and passion.

A situation in which there is a lack of passion or feelings for another person, or people, who have griefs, misfortunes, or troubles: Janice could only have dyspathy for the father who went off and left his son in his car for several hours in the sun which caused the little boy's death. © ALL rights are reserved.

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The pathological repetition through imitation of the actions or speech of another; a form of psychopathology: Echopathy occurs most frequently in the catatonic phase of schizophrenia when the patient assumes the postures, gestures, and speech of another individual in what appears to be "mirror fashion" behavior.