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.
pillar. 1  gnomon, gnomonics-A gnomon is the pillar or rod that casts a shadow on a sundial; gnomonics is the art or science of dialing or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.