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 -path. 1  1 : practitioner of a (specified) system of medicine that emphasizes one aspect of disease or its treatment naturopath. 2  2 [International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek -pathÄs, adjective, suffering, from pathos] a : one suffering from a disorder (of such a part or system) psychopathb : one perceiving telepath.