patológicos

Patológicos is the plural masculine adjective used to describe things related to pathology or disease, or pathological phenomena. The term stems from patología, the medical specialty that studies disease, its causes, mechanisms, and effects. In clinical and research contexts, patológicos is used to qualify abnormalities detected in tissues, organs, or physiological processes as evidence of disease; for example, lesiones patológicas, hallazgos patológicos in histological samples, or procesos patológicos such as necrosis, fibrosis, or inflammation.

In addition to its medical sense, patológico can describe pathological behavior or conditions in psychology or psychiatry, where conductas patológicas denote behaviors considered abnormal or deleterious, often linked to psychiatric disorders or neurological impairment. The use of patológico implies that the observed feature is part of a disease process, and distinguishes it from normal variation.

The word is commonly used with the noun patología (the study of diseases) or patógeno (pathogen) in contexts like patología clínica, patología molecular, or patología forense. While patológico frequently aligns with disease, in some contexts it may be used more broadly to indicate any deviation from normal structure or function, though in scientific writing it tends to be precise about disease-related findings.