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  • Pathological intoxication

    Severe cerebral and behavioral disturbance in a person whose tolerance to alcohol is extremely low.  

  • 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…

  • Pathological deviance

    Infrequent, illogical, and antisocial behaviors.  

  • Pathological anxiety

    Anxiety so intense that it produces one or more behavioral disorders, normal anxiety.  

  • Pathogenic model

    The theory that disease is caused by invading organisms.  

  • Pathenogenesis

    The origin or the course of development of a disease.  

  • 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.  

  • Paternal

    Pertaining to the father.  

  • 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…

  • Patent foramen ovale

    A congenital defect in which the foramen ovale fails to close.  

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