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  • And I felt compelled to write the following on an index card: You need to have a dermatologist perform a punch biopsy on the mole (nevus) on the back of your neck If it is not too much of an invasion of your privacy, I would very much like to look at the pathology report.†   (source)
  • ALTHOUGH TY would have sworn that my loyalty to Rose was unshaken, and probably pathological, he would have been wrong.†   (source)
  • "I specialize in the pathology and therapeutics of the blood," he said.†   (source)
  • Often the shooter will have a turbulent relationship with his parents, or will have parents who accept pathological behavior.†   (source)
  • Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.†   (source)
  • The trooper had been in favor of having pathologists look for insect venom while autopsying such victims, Jack recalled.†   (source)
  • Moose are large, and essentially insane with an almost pathological hatred of the dogs, the sled, the musher, trees, trains, cars, and everything else as near as I can figure.†   (source)
  • Now there she was with a corpse, a stack of petridishes, and the pathologist, Dr. Wilbur, who stood hunched over the autopsy table.†   (source)
  • At the same time, you'll also discover the transcendent account of a poet/artist who, with the help of a small, socially engaged core of community leaders and teachers, overcame his own deeply held pathologies to take on the great challenges of an oppressive and exploitative reality—and finding his own particular destiny with words, dedicated himself to making positive contributions in transforming that reality.†   (source)
  • I was sitting with Jai in a doctor's waiting room at Johns Hopkins, awaiting yet another pathology report, and I was bouncing my thoughts off her.†   (source)
  • It's got everything that a dimwitted pathological gambler would identify with luxury: gold-plated fixtures, lots of injection-molded pseudomarbie, velvet drapes, and a butler.†   (source)
  • Football was a team game; there was a limit to the pathological behavior it would tolerate, especially in a high school player.†   (source)
  • You always—" In that instant blind anger—pathological anger—took possession of me.†   (source)
  • A pathological liar.†   (source)
  • I read the pathologist's report.†   (source)
  • The Commissioners, nine of their original number having died and been replaced, paused to observe formal installation of the replacements and announced they were laboring to produce one book, weeding out "all the pathological symptoms" of the religious past.†   (source)
  • Psychiatrists talk about criminals as people with stunted psychological development, people who have had pathological relationships with their parents, who lack adequate role models.†   (source)
  • Do you know what a pathological fear is?†   (source)
  • Nancy had joined Johnson's Ebola project as the pathologist.†   (source)
  • I don't send it to pathology for the simple reason that we don't have a pathologist.†   (source)
  • And yet what Jimmy had felt for her was beyond normal love; it was passion-a passion that was in part pathological.†   (source)
  • I'm rather good at diagnosing pathologies from palm reading, myself," Harding says.†   (source)
  • This is pathological obsession.†   (source)
  • "Most of it's true, unless she's been saying I'm some kind of crackerjack forensic pathologist," Claire said, grinning.†   (source)
  • I could see them only in my father's almost pathological fear of cold, in his hatred of ice.†   (source)
  • Pathology, social medicine, politics, anthropology.†   (source)
  • The Coles were moonshiners and drug dealers, alcoholics, wife beaters, abusive fathers and mothers, thieves and pimps, and above all, pathologically violent.†   (source)
  • He would remember them forever, for they were all part and parcel of the most extraordinary event that had ever befallen him, an event perhaps marvelous, perhaps pathological — the vision of the naked man in the tree.†   (source)
  • He had set off on the seventy-mile trek from Askole with a team of ten English, Irish, French, and American mountaineers, part of a poorly financed but pathologically bold attempt to climb the world's second-highest peak.†   (source)
  • That's not the reasoning of a pathological killer.†   (source)
  • Then there was the pathologist, Burton, in Houston.†   (source)
  • Fitzsimmons realized that he was confronted with a behavioral problem at least as maddening as Hard Tack's murderousness: pathological indolence.†   (source)
  • And through hard work, luck, and a certain amount of pathological obsession, I was able to make the movie The Thin Blue Line and help get him out of prison.†   (source)
  • Even wrote a textbook on forensic pathology.†   (source)
  • I suppose he was one of those pathological personalities you read about — no way to spot them.†   (source)
  • I was elaborating upon my "legend" consistently and Luzan accepted my pathologies.†   (source)
  • Eventually, when he could speak again, he said, "My point is that there were a number of passengers for whom the pathologists were unable to find any remains.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is convinced it is something pathological, something her daughter inherited from her Abuela Celia.†   (source)
  • Yet not even she knows that Booth is a Confederate sympathizer, one who nurses a pathological hatred for Lincoln and the North.†   (source)
  • He would enter the radiology department or walk to the pathology department, look around for an old fellow student, and put the question to him.†   (source)
  • "We didn't even have time to put him on ice," the pathologist said, examining the pustules covering the man's body with a simple magnifying glass.†   (source)
  • The forensic psychiatrist I'd hired to examine him said Johnny Wayne was a narcissist, a pathological liar, and a sociopath, and those were his good qualities.†   (source)
  • In some Confederates this passion became almost pathological.†   (source)
  • He told Dr. Edwards, "That Chink knows more about the pathology of cerebral hemorrhage than I do, and I bet as much as you do.†   (source)
  • For she had undergone her own educating at a time of nerves, blandness and retreat among not only her fellow students but also most of the visible structure around and ahead of them, this having been a national reflex to certain pathologies in high places only death had had the power to cure, and this Berkeley was like no somnolent Siwash out of her own past at all.†   (source)
  • I experienced some difficulty in explaining to Mike what was meant by an autopsy, so I opened a pathology textbook at a two-page color diagram of a human abdomen under dissection, and with this visual aid was well into my explanation when I realized I had lost my audience.†   (source)
  • A pathological liar can beat Amytal and Pentothal.†   (source)
  • Nor was there any pathology here, anything to do with sinister psychic repression which might have driven me to seek medical care.†   (source)
  • At the other end of town stood the former Institute of Gynecology, founded by Samdeviatov's father in memory of his wife, who had died in childbirth, now renamed the Rosa Luxemburg Institute, where Yurii Andreievich lectured on general pathology and one or two optional subjects as part of the new, shortened course of medicine and surgery.†   (source)
  • She enjoys working in the pathology lab.
  • Agatha, having finished her book by dint of extensive skipping, proceeded to study pathology from a volume of clinical lectures.   (source)
  • Body to be released to State of Maine Doctor in attendance Harold Kuebler MD Pathologist†   (source)
  • Beck Weathers, forty-nine, was a garrulous pathologist from Dallas.†   (source)
  • A pathological killer whose only morality was the price of the kill.†   (source)
  • Nieminen did not need the help of a pathologist to work out how they had died.†   (source)
  • From time to time he worked on his new book, Pathologies of Power.†   (source)
  • It was not her fault that her father had been a pathological sadist and murderer.†   (source)
  • A pathologist helped him do it, standing next to him.†   (source)
  • The pathologist says that the time of death could be plus or minus an hour.†   (source)
  • Did you look at the slides with the pathologist?†   (source)
  • If such a man claims his wife is missing, who knows where that pathological trip could lead?†   (source)
  • Number one was that he had a pathological fear of thunderstorms.†   (source)
  • He said, "Opal, I believe Winn-Dixie has a pathological fear of thunderstorms."†   (source)
  • Nancy Jaax volunteered to work as the pathologist on Johnson's Ebola project.†   (source)
  • Most of them were pathological criminals.†   (source)
  • The pathologist wrote that there were graze wounds.†   (source)
  • The pathologist says that the tattoo has to have been done by a rank amateur.†   (source)
  • You trusted the pathologist to read the biopsies for you?†   (source)
  • There a pathologist had prepared a set of slides for Nancy to look at.†   (source)
  • But for a while, there was a pathologist at the American Embassy clinic in Beirut.†   (source)
  • According to the pathologist, Bjurman was shot between 10:00 and 11:00 that night.†   (source)
  • A journalist named Blomkvist had described Niedermann as a pathological murderer and a psychopath.†   (source)
  • The pathologist's final report arrived this morning.†   (source)
  • That afternoon we sat in the cramped office of Dr. Ramuna, the pathologist.†   (source)
  • I've been studying your planet a long time—the most amazing pathologies in tile explored complex.†   (source)
  • He had become pathological about it, sometimes spending as long as five minutes lost in a daze, counting back, making sure he hadn't somehow forgotten one.†   (source)
  • It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.†   (source)
  • Years later, when I talked to Grover Hutchins, the pathologist listed in Cofield's lawsuit, he shook his head and said, "The whole thing was very sad.†   (source)
  • The pathologist subsequently performed an autopsy at the Department of Forensic Sciences laboratory in Mobile.†   (source)
  • In addition to their pathological friendliness, and their constant need for medical attention, they exhibited a bizarre tendency to leave their most valuable possessions unattended.†   (source)
  • I had what I only can label a pathological temper—a disease—and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational.†   (source)
  • Dr. Irving Stone, the forensic pathologist from Dallas, takes the stand and makes forceful arguments for the defense about the gunshot residue and other aspects of the shooting, as Seiler said he would.†   (source)
  • A forty-ninetwang during the trek to Everest Base Camp last A allas pathologist, Beck was one of eight clients on Rob year-old D showed that Everest was within Hall's 1996 guided expedition.†   (source)
  • The discredited pathologist left Alabama but continues to serve as a practicing medical examiner in Texas.†   (source)
  • In December 1971, when Jones and his colleagues published their tribute to Gey in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, they reported that the original pathologist had "misinterpreted" and "mislabeled" Henrietta's cancer.†   (source)
  • My first impression of Beck had not been favorable: a back slapping Dallas pathologist with less-than-mediocre mountaineerring skills, at first blush he came across as a rich Republican blowhard looking to buy the summit of Everest for his trophy case.†   (source)
  • Then, without warning, Deborah turned the pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the autopsy: The dead woman's arms had been pulled up and back so that the pathologist could get at her chest ...the body had been split down the middle and opened wide ...greyish white tumor globules ...filled the corpse.†   (source)
  • The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee.†   (source)
  • Bryce got you on the stand and made you look like a maniac, a sullen pathological liar and a killer who, except for the war and your expertise, would be in a maximum security prison.†   (source)
  • The pathologist had offered the suggestion that a wooden club wrapped in cloth had been the weapon used.†   (source)
  • So the abiding philosophy is to help a wayward child develop into a productive member of the community, or if ignored, risk allowing someone of essentially decent nature to become an adult whose social interactions are fraught and difficult, or even pathological, criminal.†   (source)
  • There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.†   (source)
  • The pathologist handed over the glass.†   (source)
  • What's a pathologist do?†   (source)
  • He is above average in intelligence, and has a good range of information considering his poor educational background...Two features in his personality make-up stand out as particularly pathological.†   (source)
  • What, in Western cultures, is something rare, random, and deeply pathological, has become in Micronesia a ritual of adolescence, with its own particular rules and symbols.†   (source)
  • Claire was a doctor, a pathologist.†   (source)
  • Alongside him, Burton, the pathologist, somehow appeared sloppy and confused, and there was a kind of tired fright in his eyes.†   (source)
  • It strikes me as almost pathological that I should be this low about Anne Hickey, whom in most every way I hardly knew, when in the past I could shed loss and leaving like any passing cloud of rain.†   (source)
  • Whether or not this has anything to do with his pathological hatred for the president will never be determined.†   (source)
  • These feelings seem to be overcompensated for by dreams of being rich and powerful, a tendency to brag about his exploits, spending sprees when he has money, and dissatisfaction with only the normal slow advancement he could expect from his job...He is uncomfortable in his relationships to other people, and has a pathological inability to form and hold enduring personal attachments.†   (source)
  • Burton was fifty-four, a pathologist.†   (source)
  • Pérez also took him to meet Cuba's chief forensic pathologist, the person who had led the team that had found Che Guevara's secret grave in Bolivia—or claimed to have found it, some would say.†   (source)
  • I was afraid that maybe he would say we couldn't keep a dog who went crazy with pathological fear every time there was a crack of thunder.†   (source)
  • They're calling me pathological, a schizophrenic — that means I fantasize: I sometimes tell the truth and sometimes not, and I'm not supposed to be able to tell the difference.'†   (source)
  • He did not know, for instance, that Burton, the pathologist, was not called until five a. m., or that Peter Leavitt, the microbiologist, was not called until six thirty, the time he arrived at the hospital.†   (source)
  • The pathologist stood up at his desk to tell the story, in a loud voice, at moments practically declaiming, recounting how they had done mathematical modeling, employed their own Cuban archaeologist, soil chemist, geologist, and botanist, and how, after searching for three hundred days, they had finally come upon the bones and identified them and sneaked them back to Cuba.†   (source)
  • Bjurman's body had been placed on its back on a wheeled stretcher, the first stop on the way to the pathologist.†   (source)
  • But if you persist with this fantasy, with this figment of your tortured mind that you call Medusa, we'll label you a paranoid schizophrenic, a pathological liar prone to uncontrollable violence and self-deception.†   (source)
  • He is not related to Gene Johnson, the civilian virus hunter, or to Lieutenant Colonel Tony Johnson, the pathologist.†   (source)
  • The pathologist was unable to supply the exact time of death, but he had established that it occurred on the afternoon of April 12.†   (source)
  • He remembered remarking to the pathologist, as he cut up the little pink chunk of mystery meat in the tin foil, "Good thing this ain't Marburg."†   (source)
  • What does the pathologist's report say?†   (source)
  • Paranoid...pathological.†   (source)
  • Grogan became a pathologist, famous as a teacher in his own right, and famous for his extraordinary girth.†   (source)
  • I talked with the pathologist again.†   (source)
  • In 1986, Gene Johnson had infected monkeys with Ebola and Marburg by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and she had been the pathologist for that experiment.†   (source)
  • Finally he said, almost under his breath, "Marion, when it's your patient and you are basing your surgery on a biopsy, be sure to look at the slides with the pathologist.†   (source)
  • His body was sent to the pathologist, and the crime scene investigation proceeded as best it could under the circumstances.†   (source)
  • A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever—harmless to humans, lethal to monkeys.†   (source)
  • Teleborian, who had many years of experience with the patient, had determined that Salander was suffering from a serious mental disturbance and employed terms such as psychopathy, pathological narcissism, and paranoid schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • In this issue, Millennium will tell the story of how government officials conspired against Salander in order to protect a pathological murderer...He wrote steadily for fifty minutes, primarily a recapitulation of the night on which he had found Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson and why the police had focused on Salander as the suspected killer.†   (source)
  • —unable to figure out how to cope either with the new crisis she had injected into my life or with the craze for her which was like some stupid pathological hunger and which had all but paralyzed my will.†   (source)
  • My sense of solitariness was verging, I knew, on the pathological, so intensely painful was the isolation I felt, and I suspected that I would be even more lost if I abandoned Manhattan, where at least there were familiar landmarks and amiable Village byways as points of reference to make me feel at home.†   (source)
  • Virtually everyone in my profession of forensic pathology would like to see this test discontinued.†   (source)
  • Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Alpert is almost pathologically helpful.†   (source)
  • Since this may he a new pathology, you probably get to name it.†   (source)
  • You could render generosity into pathology, commitment into obsession.†   (source)
  • b) pathology, with EM, phase and LM, microtomes and curing rooms.†   (source)
  • Soon afterward, he was made a professor of pathology.†   (source)
  • I don't send it to pathology for the simple reason that we don't have a pathologist.†   (source)
  • The more he read about Salander, the more convinced he became that she was pathologically unwell.†   (source)
  • The man did the pathology for all the American embassies in East and West Africa.†   (source)
  • She was also studying for her pathology-board exams, which were coming up in a week.†   (source)
  • Not even Armansky would take the word of a pathologically sick murderer.†   (source)
  • They hit upon Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax, the Institute's chief of pathology.†   (source)
  • I'm doing the work of four pathologists, but I'm only here half-time.†   (source)
  • We had experience with her pathology compiled over many years.†   (source)
  • As a professional he was obstinate and almost pathologically focused on the job at hand.†   (source)
  • She was in training for veterinary pathology, the study of disease in animals.†   (source)
  • We lined up one of the top forensic pathologists in the country to do the tests, Dr. Irving Stone of the Institute for Forensic Sciences in Dallas.†   (source)
  • Enstice's conclusion was further discredited by Dr. Werner Spitz, who had authored the medical treatise Enstice had relied on in her forensic pathology training.†   (source)
  • I heard about them in histology, neurology, pathology; I used them in experiments on how neighboring cells communicate.†   (source)
  • We involved expert pathologists and persuaded local authorities that there was no basis on which to convict Marsha of murder.†   (source)
  • Wayne Grody, director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, was once a fierce opponent of consent for tissue research.†   (source)
  • Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features.†   (source)
  • Even though most experts agree that forensic pathologists—who primarily deal with dead people—are not qualified to estimate survival chances, the State allowed prosecutors to pursue criminal charges.†   (source)
  • Then, a few days later, Jones got her biopsy results from the pathology lab: "Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I." All cancers originate from a single cell gone wrong and are categorized based on the type of cell they start from.†   (source)
  • Not long before Henrietta's first exam, TeLinde presented his argument about carcinoma in situ to a major meeting of pathologists in Washington, D.C., and the audience heckled him off the stage.†   (source)
  • Tattered curtains hung in the classrooms where Deo had received lectures on basic physiology, pathology, pharmacology.†   (source)
  • How many of the three hundred and thirty were the pathologists finally able to identify...to find at least a few teeth from, body parts, something, anything, to tell who they were?†   (source)
  • According to the Historical Dictionary of Burundi, the Belgian settler Albert Maus is said to have been "pathologically anti-Tutsi."†   (source)
  • Russ is shouting himself right out of his sore throat, out of every malady and pathology and complaint and all the pangs of growing up and every memory that is not tender.†   (source)
  • On a Saturday night ten months ago, in the course of covering a story, Joe had visited the city morgue, where the bagged bodies on the gurneys and the naked bodies on the autopsy tables waited for the attention of overworked pathologists.†   (source)
  • The Power of Context says that the showdown on the subway between Bernie Goetz and those four youths had very little to do, in the end, with the tangled psychological pathology of Goetz, and very little as well to do with the background and poverty of the four youths who accosted him, and everything to do with the message sent by the graffiti on the walls and the disorder at the turnstiles.†   (source)
  • The pathology was striking.†   (source)
  • Erlander knew from long experience that there were plenty of nutcases out there, some pathologically obsessed ones who stalked celebrities and looked for love by hiding in woods near their villas.†   (source)
  • Ideally you'd send it to pathology.†   (source)
  • But if he was telling the truth there was still a hidden element in the drama; there were more players than those who were visible, and the murders could be considerably more complex than an attack of insanity in a pathologically disturbed girl.†   (source)
  • When Nancy Jaax first applied to join the pathology group at the Institute, the colonel in charge of it didn't want to accept her.†   (source)
  • That way if his wife gets pregnant a year from now, you can show the patient the pathology report and he'll know it's not because you didn't do your job but because a third party did his job better.†   (source)
  • He was eventually appointed head of pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and when that happened, his old job came open, the job of chief of pathology at the Institute.†   (source)
  • Anyone who is acquainted with Jews will attest that, if anything, in the sexual area they are meek and inhibited, unaggressive, even pathologically repressed.†   (source)
  • Two full weeks had gone by, and when Sophie suggested to the doctor, with a great reticence, that perhaps she was in need of an M.D., a real diagnostician, he flew into the closest approximation of a rage she had ever seen in this almost pathologically benign man.†   (source)
  • The neighbors found out about Gussie and discussed his pathological state in hushed whispers.†   (source)
  • Or, as he writes again: "Every pathological disorder of sexual life is rightly to be regarded as an inhibition in development."†   (source)
  • I should hesitate to share them with others if I saw in them nothing but the pathological fancies of a single and isolated case of a diseased temperament.†   (source)
  • It was a collection of pathological specimens.†   (source)
  • Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, I hope I have not given you the idea that Edward Ashburnham was a pathological case.†   (source)
  • The pathological origin and mechanistic defeat of the affair left a flat and metallic taste.†   (source)
  • Our pathologist is leaving in a few weeks.†   (source)
  • He was appointed pathologist in the Rouncefield Clinic.†   (source)
  • Franz, resident pathologist at the clinic, a Vaudois by birth, a few years older than Dick, met him at the tram stop.†   (source)
  • And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.†   (source)
  • He learned pathological anatomy from a volume he was now holding to one side to catch the reddish glow of his table lamp; the text, with a series of illustrations, discussed parasitic cell fusion and infectious tumors.†   (source)
  • Zeena, who had at her fingers' ends the pathological chart of the whole region, had cited many cases of the kind while she was nursing his mother; and he himself knew of certain lonely farm-houses in the neighbourhood where stricken creatures pined, and of others where sudden tragedy had come of their presence.†   (source)
  • At the end of the lecture the boy who had spoken to Philip in the pathological museum and sat next to him in the theatre suggested that they should go to the dissectingroom.†   (source)
  • The nurse hung on his response, half expecting him to imply that Miss Warren's attitude was pathological.†   (source)
  • Anatomy was a dreary science, a mere matter of learning by heart an enormous number of facts; dissection bored him; he did not see the use of dissecting out laboriously nerves and arteries when with much less trouble you could see in the diagrams of a book or in the specimens of the pathological museum exactly where they were.†   (source)
  • As an idealist of the pathological, if not to say a pathological idealist, such a man will see himself at the starting point of a sequence of thought that very quickly flows into the problem of being-in-general—that is to say, into the problem of the relationship between mind and matter.†   (source)
  • When Martin had sketched his conflict at Nautilus, Angus suggested, "You better come join us here at Rouncefield, as pathologist.†   (source)
  • The letters were divided into two classes, of which the first class, up to about the time of the armistice, was of marked pathological turn, and of which the second class, running from thence up to the present, was entirely normal, and displayed a richly maturing nature.†   (source)
  • It was very difficult to get away from her, because she displayed an almost pathological fear of a conversation's drawing to a close; and as soon as the young men assumed an air of wanting to move on, she would cling to them with hasty words and looks and a desperate little smile, until they took pity on her and stood there a while longer.†   (source)
  • I keep asserting that I have given up all the idyllic delights of pathological research for the less fascinating but so very important and fatiguing cares of the directorship.†   (source)
  • It was as close as Dick had ever come to comprehending such a character from any but the pathological angle—he gathered that this very charm made it possible for Francisco to perpetrate his outrages, and, for Dick, charm always had an independent existence, whether it was the mad gallantry of the wretch who had died in the clinic this morning, or the courageous grace which this lost young man brought to a drab old story.†   (source)
  • They inspected the marine biology aquarium, the pathological museum, and the animal house, at sight of which one sprightly lady demanded of Wickett, "Oh, the poor little guinea pigs and darling rabbicks!†   (source)
  • Some natures are so sensitive to certain smells; and it would even be a very fine question to study both in its pathological and physiological relation.†   (source)
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