What's the difference between monomania and pathological?

Monomania


Definition:

  • (n.) Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just as it’s possible to oppose George Osborne’s initial deficit monomania on sound, Keynesian grounds without wanting to jettison the pound, so it poses no contradiction to demand an end to Merkelism while wanting to hold fast to the euro.
  • (2) Hatred becomes monomania when the affect degenerates maniacally (e. g. queruousness) or perversely (e. g. misogyny).
  • (3) That's why the current satirical onslaught against politics as a whole, which amounts sometimes to monomania and increasingly to cliche, ought at the very least to be a proper subject for discussion.
  • (4) At the trial Baker's attorney argued unsuccessfully that at the time of the crime the accused suffered from monomania, a form of mental disease, and therefore should not be held responsible for the act.
  • (5) During this period pyromania was variously labeled as a form of monomania, moral insanity, impulsive mania, or instinctive mania.
  • (6) But it doesn't matter; the company's monomania, it's collective passion is undeniable.

Pathological


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pathology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
  • (2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (3) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (4) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
  • (5) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
  • (6) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (7) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (8) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
  • (9) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (10) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
  • (11) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
  • (12) Four of the five ectopic pregnancies occurred in patients with previously documented tubal pathology.
  • (13) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
  • (14) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
  • (15) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
  • (16) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (17) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
  • (18) Internal fixation of these pathological fractures appeared to be the best treatment.
  • (19) These findings suggest that Sch 40120 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that may be particularly useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis in which leukotrienes appear to be major mediators of the pathological symptoms that characterize the disease state.
  • (20) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.