PATHOGENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pathogenesis mean? 

• PATHOGENESIS (noun)
  The noun PATHOGENESIS has 1 sense:

1. the origination and development of a disease

  Familiarity information: PATHOGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATHOGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The origination and development of a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("pathogenesis" is a kind of...):

pathologic process; pathological process (an organic process occurring as a consequence of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pathogenesis"):

focalisation; focalization (the confinement of an infection to a limited area)

 Context examples 

This gene may play a role in the pathogenesis of certain types of cancer.

(CASC1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may play a role in the pathogenesis of certain types of cancer.

(Cancer Susceptibility Candidate Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The BRCATA gene may be involved in the pathogenesis of breast cancer and is located at chromosome 11q23.

(Breast Cancer, 11;22 Translocation Associated Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene, which encodes Breast cancer, 11;22 translocation associated protein, may play a role in tumor pathogenesis.

(BRCATA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cancer susceptibility candidate protein 1, may be involved in the pathogenesis of certain types of cancer.

(CASC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This pathway may be involved in the role of macrophages in the pathogenesis of AIDS.

(CCR5 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Deletion of the CISH wild-type allele may play a role in the pathogenesis of renal cell carcinomas and of lung cancer.

(CISH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may play a role in neural system development and in neural tumor pathogenesis.

(Chromodomain-Helicase-DNA-Binding Protein 5, NCI Thesaurus)

KRIT1 may affect cell adhesion processes via integrin signaling in CCM1 pathogenesis.

(Cerebral Cavernous Malformations 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in tumor pathogenesis.

(BRCATA Gene, NCI Thesaurus)