The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.

disease

(clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).

The quality or state of causing, originating or producing disease.

(pathology) Able to cause (harmful) disease. / (music) Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.

(pathology, immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.

(medicine) Pertaining to pathology. / (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.

(biology) The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.

An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.

(pathology) clinical chemistry.