pathology

Meanings

Plural: pathologies

Noun

• the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
• any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
• 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.
• The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
• 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.
• The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
• 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.
• Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
• Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

Synonyms

abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis

Related Words

pathobiology, pathogenesisetiologyetiopathogenesispathoetiology, pathophysiology