A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
However, court proceedings, such as a trial, cannot be instituted until an indictment or information has been handed down against the defendant.
In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based;
The purpose is to give notice to the adversary of the nature and basis of the claim asserted.
The act of complaining.
A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.
The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.