Gleeson is modest to an almost pathological degree.
Our society has wed self-confidence to monetary success, to a pathetic as well as pathological degree.
But this one's seems to have reached a "pathological degree," a term used by Mr. Kissinger himself.
Put the world behind a tiny frame/screen (handheld technology perhaps) and suddenly, by focusing smaller and blocking out the imagined dead weight of the world around us, we can manage to take in even more information, do more, feel bigger, lighter, move faster... even to a pathological degree.
Dealing with the humiliation of being labeled as a cheater, and having to permanently wear the Scarlet Letter was too much to cope with, and instead he cushioned the trauma by invoking an array of defense mechanisms to a pathological degree.
The pathological degree of necrosis after chemotherapy was concordant with PET in 57.1% of cases; the observed discrepancies were attributed to chemotherapy-induced inflammation.
These findings uncover the responses of repetitive pressure pain algometry applied to a hypersensitive tender spots and provides insight about the clinical application of pressure algometry on pathological degree of tenderness.
The likelihood that low glucose levels, documented by self-monitoring in such patients, truly represent a pathological degree of hypoglycemia is extremely small, yet the practice of encouraging such monitoring can help perpetuate a false belief that a disorder of glucose metabolism underlies the patient's symptoms.
It's not just that his material is generic and middle of the road – that's expected, if not to this near-pathological degree.
A statistically significant difference was observed between TNBC and non-TNBC with regard to the degree of pathological stage (P=0.005), tumour size (P=0.012), lymph node metastasis (P=0.024), and lymphatic invasion (P=0.015).
