Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pathological intoxication
Severe cerebral and behavioral disturbance in a person whose tolerance to alcohol is extremely low.
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Pathological fracture
A fracture in which a specific weakness or destruction of bone caused by some process, such as cancer, is the reason for the break. A fracture of a diseased bone. A fracture of a diseased or weakened bone produced by a force that would not have fractured a healthy bone. The underlying disease may be…
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Pathological deviance
Infrequent, illogical, and antisocial behaviors.
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Pathological anxiety
Anxiety so intense that it produces one or more behavioral disorders, normal anxiety.
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Pathogenic model
The theory that disease is caused by invading organisms.
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Pathenogenesis
The origin or the course of development of a disease.
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Path analysis
Based on multiple regression techniques, a causal analysis developed in genetics and economics and now used extensively in sociology. The goal is to determine a fit of a particular causal ordering of variables with the relationships that exist in the investigator’s data set.
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Paternal
Pertaining to the father.
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Patent medicine
A drug that has been patented. A medicinal preparation which is made and sold under a trade name and is protected by law from being copied or sold by other manufacturers for a certain length of time after its invention. Drug or other therapeutic substance that carries a specific trademark and is available without a…
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Patent foramen ovale
A congenital defect in which the foramen ovale fails to close.
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