pathogeny
nounEtymology From patho- + -geny.
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Medicine, Sciences The generation and method of development of disease.
- The pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
- Dr. Schmitz (Neuenahr) calls attention to four interesting cases (two fatal) as illustrating the pathogeny of diabetes, the symptoms resembling that produced in the dieted diabetics by that over-indulgence in saccharine food, for which they have such a craving.1881 July 15, “The Lancets”, in The Australian Medical Journal, volume 3, page 321:
- Derived terms
- physiopathogeny