BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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disease
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route
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trail
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Detailed explanation-1: -Patho-: A prefix derived from the Greek “pathos” meaning “suffering or disease.” Patho-serves as a prefix for many terms including pathogen (disease agent), pathogenesis (development of disease), pathology (study of disease), etc. The corresponding suffix is-pathy.
Detailed explanation-2: -[Gr. patheia, feeling, suffering] Suffix meaning feeling, e.g., sympathy; disease, e.g., neuropathy; and a method of treating disease, e.g., homeopathy.-pathy is a sample topic from the Taber’s Medical Dictionary.
Detailed explanation-3: -You would start with the suffix – pathy which means disease.
Detailed explanation-4: -suffering, feeling, emotion sympathy, antipathy, empathy. damage to, disease of, disorder of, or abnormality neuropathy, psychopathy, sociopathy.