Pathology Definition

pă-thŏlə-jē
pathologies
noun
All the conditions, processes, or results of a particular disease.
Webster's New World
The branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease, esp. with the structural and functional changes caused by disease.
Webster's New World
Any abnormal variation from a sound or proper condition.
Webster's New World
(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
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pathology
Plural:
pathologies

Origin of Pathology

  • From Ancient Greek πάθος (pathos, “disease") and -λογία (-logia, “study of").

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Pathology Sentence Examples

  • Pathology is the science of disease in all its manifestations, whether structural or functional, progressive or regressive.

  • It is when studied on these lines that pathology finds its proper place as a department of biology.

  • This subject brings the domain of pathology, however, into touch with that of variation, and we are profoundly ignorant as to the complex of external conditions which would decide in any given case how far a variation in form would be prejudicial or otherwise to the continued existence of a species.

  • The modern system of hygiene is in great part founded upon Decent pathology.

  • While thus rejecting all the lessons of morbid anatomy and pathology, he put forward views respecting the causes of disease which hardly bear to be seriously stated.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAT

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YGYOGY

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Words Starting With P and Ending With Y

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With Y