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What does pathological mean?

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Adjective
  1. (medicine) Pertaining to pathology.
  2. (medicine) Relating to, amounting to, causing, or caused by a physical or mental disorder.
  3. (mathematics) Having properties which are counterintuitive or difficult to handle.
  4. (computer science) Having properties that cause unusually bad behaviour, especially regarding correctness or performance.
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The marriage was not a success, and in his last years, he suffered from a pathological masochistic melancholia.
I would go even further by suggesting that when gross imbalances exist they bespeak pathological symptoms in academe.
He was a street fighter whose attraction to violence bordered on the pathological.
That was when he was first aware of his pathological desire to lose his left leg.
The CT Scan and MRI scan provide minute anatomic and pathological detail with non invasion.
A programme of testing several thousand pathological specimens of appendixes and tonsils was started.

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