Pathological

Definitions: Pathological

Pathological

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the practice of pathology; "pathological laboratory".

2. Caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition; "a pathological liar"; "a pathological urge to succeed".

3. Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes".

Date "pathological" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Pathological

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Pathological adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp. one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. An algorithm that can be broken by pathological inputs may still be useful if such inputs are very unlikely to occur in practice. 2. When used of test input, implies that it was purposefully engineered as a worst case. The implication in both senses is that the data is spectacularly ill-conditioned or that someone had to explicitly set out to break the algorithm in order to come up with such a crazy example. 3. Also said of an unlikely collection of circumstances. "If the network is down and comes up halfway through the execution of that command by root, the system may just crash." "Yes, but that's a pathological case." Often used to dismiss the case from discussion, with the implication that the consequences are acceptable, since they will happen so infrequently (if at all) that it doesn't seem worth going to the extra trouble to handle that case (see sense 1). Source: Jargon File.
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Specialty Definition: Pathological (mathematics)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In mathematics, the term pathological is used to refer to a specific example, to express the attitude that its properties are (or should be considered) untypically bad. The classical case is probably that of some everywhere continuous functions that are in fact nowhere differentiable. In that case, the Baire category theorem was later used to show, quite to the contrary, that such behaviour was typical and even generic.

Often the usefulness of a theorem is justified by saying examples which don't meet the assumptions (counterexamples) are pathological. A famous case is the Alexander horned sphere, a counterexample showing that embedding topologically a sphere S² in R³ may fail to separate the space cleanly, unless an extra condition of tameness is used to suppress possible wild behaviour.

One can therefore say that (particularly in mathematical analysis) those searching for the 'pathological' are like experimentalists, interested in knocking down potential theorems proposed (by 'theorists'); though this should all take place within mathematics. What is created especially can have some undesirable, unusual, or other properties that make it difficult to contain or explain within a theory. But that point of view is probably biased, by preconceptions.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pathological (mathematics)."

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Synonyms: Pathological

Synonyms: diseased (adj), morbid (adj), pathologic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pathological

English words defined with "pathological": Abirritation, amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaque, Animalculism, aseptic ♦ cytolysis ♦ essential hypertension ♦ fluorosis ♦ germy, gummosis ♦ hyperpiesia, hyperpiesis, hypersensitivity ♦ induration ♦ megalomaniac ♦ neoplasia ♦ palilalia, pathological process ♦ sclerosis, secretase, sterile ♦ Teratoid ♦ Urrhodin ♦ varicosis. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pathological": 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine ♦ Adhesions, Angiodysplasia, Antigens, Human Platelet, Antisickling Agents, aviation pathology ♦ Behavior, Addictive, BIOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHER, bit stuffing, Blood Specimen Collection, bring X to its knees ♦ Cantor-type distributions, Cathepsin B, Cell Size, Ceroid, Child Behavior Disorders, Child Reactive Disorders, Choroidal Neovascularization, CYTOTECHNOLOGIST ♦ Dental Pulp Exposure, Diagnostic Techniques, Surgical ♦ Free Radicals ♦ Gingival Hyperplasia, gingival pocket, Glucose Intolerance ♦ Heart Rupture, Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome, Hepatitis, Chronic, histologis, HISTOPATHOLOGIST ♦ introspective sort ♦ Laboratory Techniques and Procedures, Lipid Peroxides ♦ Monocrotaline ♦ Neoplastic Processes, nerve specialis, Neuromuscular Blockade, nutritional state, nutritional status ♦ Octreotide, ORAL PATHOLOGIST ♦ Pathological Conditions, Anatomical, Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms, pathological heartwood, phobias, Preimplantation Diagnosis ♦ Retropneumoperitoneum ♦ skin specialis ♦ tesselate, tesselated fundus, tuberculous lesion. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pathological

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I guess the question I'm asked most often is how did I get started with all this and whenever I'm asked that question I always tell this story, and you can believe it because it is a true story, although I am a pathological liarbut not really. (Harry Anderson's Hello Sucker; writing credit: Harry Anderson)

Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

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Commercial Usage: Pathological

Domain	Title
Books	Gait Analysis: Normal and Pathological Function (reference) Identification of Pathological Disorders in Human Skeletal Remains (reference) Pathological Gambling: The Making of a Medical Problem (reference) The Normal and the Pathological (reference) This Must Be Hell: A Look at Pathological Gambling (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Excerpta Medica - Section 5 General Pathology & Pathological Anatomy (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Pathological

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	Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : Interior of Pathological Laboratory.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Partial view of pathological laboratory.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Drive begins to bar U.S. Communist party from state ballots. (News item) Scientists still unable to explain elephants' pathological dread of mice (News item).Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pathological

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Clinical and pathological correlations. (references)
		Study the treatment of pathological grief. (references)
		Opportunities for clinical and pathological correlation should be encouraged. (references)
Business		In the surrounding Province of Buenos Aires the amount of pathological waste amounts to about 77 tons daily. (references)
		Although national statistics are not available, it is estimated that 35 tons of pathological waste is generated daily by hospitals, pharmacies, private clinics, diagnostic centers and ambulances in the City of Buenos Aires alone. (references)
		The government recently passed a law concerning proper medical waste disposal and action is now being taken concerning the institutions (30 percent of total pathological waste) that do not have appropriate installations for its treatment and elimination. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Pathological

"Pathological" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Pathological" is used about 310 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.68%	309	16,435
Noun (proper)	0.32%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	310	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Pathological

Expressions using "pathological": pathological heartwood ♦ pathological process. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pathological": anatomico-pathological, clinical-pathological, clinico-pathological, near-pathological, psycho-pathological.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pathological

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pathological liar	188
pathological lying	51
pathological gambling	37
pathological	13
pathological narcissism	10
lier pathological	10
definition liar pathological	8
fracture pathological	7
jealousy pathological	6
cause liar pathological	4
intoxication pathological	3
narcissist pathological	3
liers pathological	3
dealing liar pathological	3
help liar pathological	3
pathological gambler	2
anatomy pathological	2
compulsive habitual lying lying lying pathological	2
myopia pathological	2
pathological grief	2
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Modern Translations: Pathological

Language		Translations for "pathological"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		patologjik (morbid), i sëmurë (ailing, bad, case, compulsive, diseased, down, ill, invalid, morbid, noisome, patient, seedy, sick, sufferer, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), i ngulët (fixed, obsessive). (various references)

Arabic		‏مرضي (fulfilling, invalid, morbid, sick), ‏باثولجي. (various references)

Bulgarian		патологичен (morbid, teratoid). (various references)

Chinese		病理性 (Pathologic). (various references)

Danish		patologisk (disease study-related, pathologic). (various references)

Dutch		pathologisch (disease study-related, pathologic). (various references)

Finnish		patologinen (pathologic), tautiopillinen (pathologic), sairaalloinen (ailing, infirm, pathologic, sickly). (various references)

French		pathologique (pathologic). (various references)

German		pathologisch, krankhaft (abnormal, chronic, diseased, ill-looking, morbid, morbidly, sickly, unhealthy). (various references)

Greek		παθολογικός (compulsive, pathologic). (various references)

Hungarian		patológikus, kóros (diseased, morbid, morbidity, peccant, pernicious). (various references)

Italian		patologico (morbid, pathologic, pathologically). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		病変 (pathological change). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		びょうへ�" (pathological change). (various references)

Korean		병리학 (Pathologic). (various references)

Manx		patoayllagh, gorley-oayllagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		athologicalpay

Portuguese		patológico, ínvio. (various references)

Russian		патологический (morbid, pathologic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		patološki. (various references)

Spanish		patológico (pathologic). (various references)

Swedish		patologisk, sjuklig (ailing, diseased, distempered, infirm, invalid, morbid, sickly, unhealthy, unsound, valetudinarian, valetudinary, wan). (various references)

Ukranian		емоційний (apt, emotive, expressive, pathologic, soulful), паологічний. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Pathological

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pathological": pathologically. (additional references)
	Words ending with "pathological": clinicopathological, histopathological, immunopathological, neuropathological, paleopathological, physiopathological, phytopathological, psychopathological. (additional references)
	Words containing "pathological": clinicopathologically, histopathologically, psychopathologically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pathological" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pathalogical, pathelogical, patholiogical, pathologica, pathologicals, peephological, psthological. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Pathological"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pathological" (pronounced pa'thulÄ"jikul)
9	-th u l Ä" j i k u l	mythological.
8	-u l Ä" j i k u l	archaeological, archeological, astrological, biological, biotechnological, chronological, dermatological, ecological, epidemiological, eschatological, geological, gynecological, ideological, immunological, methodological, morphological, neurological, ontological, pharmacological, phonological, physiological, psychological, radiological, sociological, technological, theological, toxicological, virological.
7	-l Ä" j i k u l	illogical, logical, zoological.
6	-Ä" j i k u l	pedagogical.
5	-j i k u l	liturgical, magical, metallurgical, nonsurgical, ornithological, serological, strategical, surgical, teleological.
4	-i k u l	acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biomedical, botanical, categorical, cervical, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, logistical, lyrical, mathematical, mechanical, metaphorical, metaphysical, metrical, musical, mystical, neoclassical, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nontechnical, optical, paradoxical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, philosophical, physical, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, puritanical, rabbinical, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, testicle, theatrical, theoretical, topical, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, whimsical.
3	-k u l	aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.
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Anagrams: Pathological

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-t"
	-2 letters: pathologic.
	-4 letters: agalloch, allopath, alogical, apologal, apologia, caliphal, gallipot, haptical, oilcloth, taiglach.
	-5 letters: acholia, alcohol, aphotic, calathi, capital, capitol, catalog, challot, chapati, coalpit, copilot, galipot, galliot, galloot, glacial, hilltop, lochial, logical, optical, otalgia, otalgic, phallic, potlach, tapioca, thallic, topical.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-h-i-l-l-o-o-p-t"
	+2 letters: pathologically.
	+3 letters: anthropological, topographically.
	+4 letters: ophthalmological, orthographically, photographically.
	+5 letters: anthropologically, histopathological, metapsychological, neuropathological, paleopathological, phytopathological.
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