pathobiology
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
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noun
pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
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noun
The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)der. English patho- Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logia New Latin biologialbor. English biology English pathobiology From patho- + biology.