(n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patho-anatomic findings in the liver and the causes of death are discussed in detail.
(2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(3) Organ explant culture models offer several significant advantages for studies of patho-physiologic mechanisms like cell injury, secretion, differentiation and structure development.
(4) In the (patho)-physiological range the three instruments may provide suitable results for the clinician.
(5) The relevant literature is reviewed and patho-physiological mechanisms of mirror reversal are discussed.
(6) The patho-anatomic picture and isolation of toxoplasma strains from the brain of dead sheep or their foetuses which had the antibodies in the blood before death -- all this demonstrated the occurrence of congenital infection.
(7) An improved understanding of the patho-physiological and biochemical changes that occur in shock states has led to new and innovative pharmacologic approaches to shock reversal.
(8) We used the patho-physiologic classification and divided the patients in the groups of preeclampsia and chronic hypertension.
(9) Review of the literature on the role of Helicobacter pylori (HP) in the patho- and morphogenesis of chronic gastritis (CG) type B, gastric ulcer (GU) and duodenal ulcer (DU) is presented.
(10) The patho-anatomical details of bone and soft tissues including the orbit and paranasal sinuses are well demonstrated.
(11) Studies demonstrating in some patients interactions between LAC and either humoral factors with important functions in the (patho-) physiology of thrombosis, endothelial cells or platelets strongly suggest that LAC represents autoantibodies with pathogenic significance.
(12) A patho-causal connection between the anomaly and the tuberculosis of the skin cannot be excluded, because this may arise easier in an area of disturbed blood supply.
(13) The movie is filled with visual effects, car chases, fights, a party that descends into drug-fuelled paranoia and moments of true pathos.
(14) Remarks on the patho-etiology, symptoms and treatment of this rare entity entailing a truly surgical emergence.
(15) As regards education, an approach from the point of view of pathology is essential for the time being in transmitting the understanding of processes of disease, based on morbid-anatomical and patho-biological findings.
(16) There is reason to believe that the degree of area stenosis calculated from frequency shift and predicted normal values gives a more true interpretation of functional stenosis than angiography, while the latter might be superior for evaluating vascular patho-anatomy, giving information also about intrathoracic and intracranial vessels, which also is important for evaluating patients with TIA and related symptoms.
(17) The key problems of the atherosclerosis patho- and morphogenesis in the light of the development of N. N. Anichkov's ideas are discussed.
(18) Setting out with the theory of glomerulonephritis from Volhard and Fahr (1914) and the fundamental patho-anatomical examinations on this subject by Theodor Fahr (1925, 1934) the actual problems of glomerulonephritis are described.
(19) The patho- and etiogenetically different processes are likely to underlie such heterogeneity.
(20) On the basis of its course and clinical and patho-anatomical features Ph1-CML looks like an atypical chronic myeloid leukemia.
Psychopathy
Definition:
(n.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both groups the most frequent psychiatric diagnosis was psychopathy.
(2) There is a touch of psychopathy in the story of your face.
(3) A comparative study of the syndrome of fantasy-making was carred out in 65 juvenile delinquents (psychopathy, early organic lesions of the brain, schizophrenia).
(4) The main findings were that, as measured on the ARCI, "simulated winning at gambling" produced a euphoria similar to the euphoria induced by the psychoactive drugs of abuse, particularly psychomotor stimulants; secondly, that as a group, the pathological gamblers, demonstrated elevated psychopathy scale scores similar to psychopathy scores found among persons with histories of drug dependence.
(5) Conceptually it ignores important issues surrounding the term 'psychopathy' and proposes a theoretical model of psychopathy based on a tripartite division of evoked potentials (early, middle and late) which ignores differences between stimulus modalities.
(6) Analysis of asthenic reactions and phases that occur periodically in persons suffering from psychopathies of the sthemic pole (33 cases) has demonstrated that the structure of the syndrome is determined by the combination of the two signs: phenomena of irritative weakness and symptomatology of the somatopsychic circle.
(7) Psychopathies are considered as a transient status of protracted adaptation due to retardation of the pubertal period.
(8) A delineation between psychopathy and normal variants on the one hand and accentuated personalities and pathocharacterological personality development on the other one is made.
(9) Diagnostic significance and informative values were assessed for individual techniques with special reference to their relevance to differential diagnosis of schizophrenia and schizoid psychopathy.
(10) There were significant positive correlations between RAC in all sessions, and a psychopathy-related inventory scale, the Gough delinquency scale.
(11) Patients with residual schizophrenia, conditions of acute excitation accompanying psychopathy, and abnormal personality or circumscribed paranoid development showed creatine activity in the range of normal values.
(12) A case study is reported which clearly supports the theory and usefulness of Structural Analysis regarding psychopathy.
(13) The results are discussed in terms of possible neurochemical bases of impulsivity and psychopathy, and of spatial skill.
(14) The Rorschach's ability to differentiate antisocial groups based on level of psychopathy (Hare, 1980, 1985) strongly supports the need to use psychopathy as an independent measure when one is studying APD.
(15) It is argued that these differential characteristics derive from the differential hemispheric organization of the male and female brain--which also determines the male susceptibility to other psychopathological syndromes such as psychopathy and sexual deviations as well as the excess in women of schizoaffective states, affective disorders, and late-onset schizophrenia.
(16) Comparison was made between groups of schizophrenics and control groups (the syndrome of motor disinhibition, schizoid psychopathy).
(17) Hypotheses have ranged from miraculous intervention to creative psychopathy.
(18) 12% of the 211 follow-up scored higher than 70 on the MMPI for mania and psychopathy scales; these women were evenly divided among the three groups.
(19) Combined clinical, psychologic and neurophysiological investigation was conducted in children with slow-progredient schizophrenia: with dominant affective disorders and hypomaniac states (Group I, 14 patients), and with predominant neurosis-like and psychopathy-like pathology (Group II, 12 patients).
(20) On the basis of a general clinical assessment of 204 patients they were divided into 2 groups: with neurosis (80 cases) and psychopathy (124 cases).