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| pathology [ pə thólləji ] (plural pathologies) |
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1. study of disease: the scientific study of the nature, origin, progress, and cause of disease
  plant pathology
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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
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3. disease: a diseased condition
a scan showing the area of suspected pathology
evidence of intestinal pathology
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4. condition that is not normal: a condition that is a deviation from the normal
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| [Late 16th century. < French pathologie or modern Latin pathologia< Greek pathos 'disease'] |
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| pathologist noun |
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