pathogeny

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The generation and method of development of disease.

   “The pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.”

   “Dr. Schmitz (Neuenahr) calls attention to four interesting cases (two fatal) as illustrating the pathogeny of diabetes, the symptoms resembling that produced in the dieted diabetics by that over-indulgence in saccharine food, for which they have such a craving.”