The phrase "a pathological state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or psychological contexts to describe a condition that is abnormal or indicative of disease.
Example: "The patient was diagnosed with a pathological state that required immediate intervention."
Alternatives: "an abnormal condition" or "a diseased state."
For Gaylin, hatred is a pathological state.
Systematic chronic hypoxia is a pathological state associated with inadequate whole-body oxygen supply.
He claimed that taking pleasure in "cruelty" was indicative of a "pathological state" and concluded: "Whether a creature has two legs or four legs, violence is violence".
In a normal state, pain may help us avoid injury, but in a pathological state, it evolves from a symptom indicating tissue damage to a disease itself 2.
In all, our present study has demonstrated that changes in the vascular responsiveness of the cerebral artery and its cellular architecture may manifest into cerebrovascular complications consistent with a pathological state normally observed with the onset and progression of atherosclerosis.
However, at a pathological state, unbound iron may promote the production of highly toxic hydroxyl radicals via Fenton reaction, particularly when it is present in the excess.Iron chelators forming tight complexes with iron may prevent this reaction.
Andrew Lansley seems to be in a pathological state of denial: it's not entirely clear what problem he is trying to radically resolve by undertaking unprecedented structural changes which purport to save the nation more than 20% of the entire NHS budget in the short to medium term.
An increase in the DEX/CRH response under treatment (especially in responders) is not in line with the concept of an elevated response in the combined DEX/CRH test as a pathological state marker of acute depression and its normalization after successful treatment (Steckler et al. 1999; Holsboer 2000).
Many of Kafka's fables contain an inscrutable, baffling mixture of the normal and the fantastic, though occasionally the strangeness may be understood as the outcome of a literary or verbal device, as when the delusions of a pathological state are given the status of reality or when the metaphor of a common figure of speech is taken literally.
Muensterberger makes an effort to distinguish his own perspective from a facile reductionism, whereby collecting is no more than the sign of a pathological state of mind.
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a pathological state defined as an increase of intracranial pressure in the absence of a causative pathological process.
