Pathological Definition

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adjective
Of pathology; of or concerned with diseases.
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Due to or involving disease.
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Governed by a compulsion; compulsive.
A pathological liar.
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The definition of pathological is someone obsessive or something done obsessively, or it is something related to a disease.
An example of something that would be described as pathological is pathological gambling which is gambling obsessively until you lose your entire life savings.
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(mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.

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Pathological Sentence Examples

  • In certain pathological conditions an excessive formation and discharge of such material is usually associated with catarrhal changes in the epithelium.

  • Tsetse-flies are of great economic and pathological importance as the disseminators of tsetse-fly disease (nagana) and sleeping sickness.

  • In 1861 an alleged "centre" of speech was detected, by a combination of clinical and pathological researches, by Paul Broca (1824-1880).

  • In England his pathological work won general recognition.

  • Its buildings include a chapel, a dining hall, a library, a lecture theatre, laboratories, classrooms, private studies and dormitories for the students, apartments for resident professors, and servants' offices; also a museum containing a collection of anatomical and pathological preparations, and mineralogical, botanical and geological specimens.

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