Etymology

pathophysiology

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Today it means: The physiological processes associated with disease or injury. Full definition →

English physiology ← French physiologie ← Latin physiologia
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  2. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  3. Englishpatho-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*bʰuH-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰuHyéti
  6. Ancient Greekφῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
  7. Ancient Greekφύσις (phúsis)
  8. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  10. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  11. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  12. Ancient Greekφῠσῐολογίᾱ (phŭsĭologíā)
  13. Latinphysiologia
  14. Frenchphysiologie
  15. Englishphysiology
  16. English todaypathophysiology

From patho- + physiology.

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