Elizabeth McGovern (I) Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.).
Pathognomonic is a term, often used in medicine, that means characteristic for a particular disease. A pathognomonic sign is a particular sign whose presence means that a particular disease is present beyond any doubt. Labelling a sign or symptom pathognomonic represents a marked intensification of a diagnostic sign or symptom. The word is an adjective of Greek origin, derived from pÃ¡thos and gnÅmon.
Definition of PATHOPHYSIOLOGY. : the physiology of abnormal states; specifically: the functional changes that accompany a particular syndrome or disease. â pathÂ·oÂ·physÂ·iÂ·oÂ·logÂ·iÂ·cal \-zÄ-É-Ëlae-ËlÃ¤-ji\ kÉl orÂ·pathÂ·oÂ·physÂ·iÂ·oÂ·log \-ic\ jik. adjective