单词 | pathography |
释义 | pathography [f. patho- + -graphy.] a. The, or a, description of disease (Dunglison Med. Lex. 1853). b. The, or a, study of the life and character of an individual or community as influenced by a disease.
1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Phychoanal. Method xxvii. 573 The history of the Catholic sainthood affords the analytic pathography an inexhaustible material. 1959New Statesman 28 Nov. 760/2 The founder of Protestantism with his fits of melancholia, his anxiety attacks, night sweats, and anguish about concupiscence, is an obvious subject for historical pathography. 1972Q. Bell Virginia Woolf II. i. 20 The Japanese psychiatrist Mme Miyeko Kamiya is, I believe, preparing a pathography of Virginia Woolf. Hence pathoˈgraphical a., pertaining to pathography (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1857); paˈthographer, one who writes a pathography.
1974Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 256/4 The pathographer must allow for the language and limitations of the theory. |

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