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
To: gd124
Then you are using a tautological definition, and the term "pathological" has no meaning. Your defintion is thus"a condition...evidenced by signs."
Most people understand "disease" to convey unhealth, or harmful conditions, not merely abnormalities.
A callus is still under your unusefully broad definition.
I prefer the medical definition, which matches what is understood by the term.
Incidentally, Kobe beef would be considered "diseased" under your silly definition.
32 posted on
03/01/2004 3:32:42 PM PST by
Atlas Sneezed
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