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.
In its purest sense, fatigable weakness should be considered pathognomonic for a neuromuscular junction (NMJ) process. However, patients are more likely to describe fatigue with a more generalized medical condition, such as worsening congestive heart failure. When dealing with consultants, specific nomenclature will demonstrate an emergency medicine practitioners competency in evaluating weakness.