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The step-by-step story of how disease actually happens, from first insult to full symptom.
means The biological chain of events by which a disease starts, develops, and produces its effects in the body.
from Built from Greek pathos ('suffering, disease') and genesis ('origin, coming into being') — the same genesis that gives us the Bible's opening book. Together they spell out exactly what the word does: the birth story of a disease, traced from its first cause to its unfolding symptoms.
- not just cause
- covers the whole mechanism, not just the trigger
- timeline matters
- explains why symptoms lag behind infection
- treatment target
- doctors interrupt pathogenesis, not just kill the cause
- same bug, different path
- one pathogen can cause wildly different disease routes