See Also: Wade-Giles(dictionary)
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton(encyclopedia)
Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital(health)
wade(dictionary)
Roe v. Wade(dictionary)
wade(dictionary)
Roe v. Wade(encyclopedia)
Hampton, Wade(encyclopedia)
Wade (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Barkley, Charles (Wade)(encyclopedia)

Pathogenesis (health) and Wade-Giles (iou)


Pathogenesis (health)


The sequence of events that leads to a disease or morbid process. It may be, for example, hormonal, chemical, infectious, genetic or traumatic in Nature.





Wade-Giles (iou)



Wade-Giles noun & adjective. M20.
[from Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-95), diplomat and first Professor of Chinese at Cambridge University + Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), Wade's successor at Cambridge.]
(Designating) a system of romanized spelling for transliterating the Chinese language devised by Wade and subsequently modified by Giles. (Now widely superseded by Pinyin.)