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pathology

pathology [ pə thólləji ] (plural pathologies)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. study of disease: the scientific study of the nature, origin, progress, and cause of disease
plant pathology

2. processes of a disease: the processes of a disease, observable either with the naked eye or by microscopy, or, at a molecular level, as inferred from biochemical tests
the pathology of cholera

3. disease: a diseased condition
a scan showing the area of suspected pathology
evidence of intestinal pathology

4. condition that is not normal: a condition that is a deviation from the normal

[Late 16th century. < French pathologie or modern Latin pathologia< Greek pathos 'disease']

pathologist noun
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