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To: gd124
disease - A pathological condition...


I'm sorry, but having a big, rich and tender liver isn't "pathological". Getting your head chopped off and having your liver cut out might be, but the lever wasn't diseased.

(Your definition would count a callus on your hand from hard work as a disease. Or getting an orange complexion from eating too many carrots.)

A medical dictionary provides a more helpful definition:

Disease: An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder...
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?disease
30 posted on 03/01/2004 2:50:47 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Beelzebubba
Pathological simply means relating to disease, not necessarily relating to a fatal disease.

How can you claim that the liver in post #15 is not diseased? Are you also claiming that "Fatty Liver Disease" is not a disease?

I would say that fois gras definitely fits your definition. I visited a fois gras farm in France many years ago, and the geese definitely seemed to be in pain.
31 posted on 03/01/2004 3:07:47 PM PST by gd124
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