pathological
IPA: pæθʌɫˈɑdʒɪkʌɫ
adjective
- (medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
- (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
- (mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
- (computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
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Examples of "pathological" in Sentences
- Pathological is the adjective form of the term.
- Pathological lying is not a kind of factitious disorder.
- Thrombosis is the pathological development of blood clots.
- The challenges are chronic, to the extreme of being pathological.
- Counter examples are pathological in the context of this discussion.
- The first pathological change in the microvasculature is vasoconstriction.
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