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Quotes About Pathophysiology

Thus, homeostatic compensations that ensue after injury, disease, or major environmental challenges to the body may represent a "trade-off" that is necessary to maintain vital body functions but may, in the long term, contribute to additional abnormalities of body function. The discipline of pathophysiology seeks to explain how the various physiological processes are altered in diseases or injury.
~ John E. Hall
For 25 years, I was an assistant professor teaching pediatrics, neurology, pathophysiology, and ethics at my alma mater, Eastern Virginia Medical School. It's been great training for my legislative work - we get in some debates in the classroom that would rival the General Assembly!
~ Ralph Northam
Reproductive hormones and serotonin, stress hormones and neurotransmitters. The whole rickety biological pathophysiology of our women. The PMDD women, maybe all women. She sees the dangerous relays in the suffering body. She understands the mad pulses of the blood.
~ Megan Abbott