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.
noun. 1  The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. 2  Also called pathobiology. 3  The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease: the pathology of cancer.