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.
Pathos (/ËpeÉªÎ¸És/, US /ËpeÉªÎ¸oÊs/; plural: pathea; Greek: ÏÎ¬Î¸Î¿Ï, for suffering or experience; adjectival form: 'pathetic' from ÏÎ±Î¸Î·ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÏ) represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience, and elicits feelings that already reside in them.