pathology
/pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
Uncountable
noun
The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
Literary; Uncountable
noun
The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
Uncountable
noun
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype."
- "Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities."
- "the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department"
- "Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise."
- "Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: pathologie, πάθος
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.