[gd124]

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.

[Atlas Sneezed]

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.