pathogeny

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English

Etymology

From patho- +‎ -geny.

Noun

pathogeny (countable and uncountable, plural pathogenies)

  1. (medicine) The generation and method of development of disease.
    The pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
    • 1881 July 15, “The Lancets”, in The Australian Medical Journal, volume 3, page 321:
      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.

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