Pathogeny

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pathogeny \Pa*thog"e*ny\, n. (Med.)
     (a) The generation, and method of development, of disease;
         as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
     (b) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation
         and development of disease.
         [1913 Webster]