pathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: pathologies
Etymology: From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “disease”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”).
Senses: examples: text: The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
glosses: 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).
qualifier: clinical medicine
examples: text: Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
qualifier: life sciences
examples: text: Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
text: Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
synonyms: abnormality
disease
illness
pathosis
glosses: Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Derived terms: acropathology
aetiopathology
anatomical pathology
anatomopathology
bacteriopathology
biopathology
bureaupathology
cardiopathology
chemical pathology
clinical pathology
clinicopathology
copathology
cytopathology
dermatopathology
dermopathology
dystropathology
ecopathology
electropathology
embryopathology
endocrinopathology
enteropathology
etiopathology
experimental pathology
fetopathology
forensic pathology
gastropathology
graphopathology
gynecopathology
haematopathology
haemopathology
hæmopathology
hematopathology
hemopathology
hepatopathology
hippopathology
histopathology
iatropathology
ichthyopathology
immunopathology
inflammopathology
lipopathology
macropathology
mechanopathology
meteoropathology
micropathology
molecular pathology
morphopathology
myopathology
nanopathology
nephropathology
neurohistopathology
neuropathology
neurophysiopathology
nonpathology
odontopathology
oncopathology
onychopathology
ophthalmopathology
osteopathology
otopathology
palaeopathology
paleopathology
pathologic
pathological
pathologically
pathologise
pathologist
pathologize
pharmacopathology
photopathology
physiopathology
phytopathology
plant pathology
polypathology
pseudopathology
psychopathology
retinopathology
speech–language pathology
synaptopathology
taupathology
telepathology
thermopathology
toxicopathology
uropathology
xenopathology
zoopathology
zoöpathology
Related terms: pathobiology
etiology
etiopathogenesis
pathoetiology
pathogenesis
pathophysiology