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pa⋅thol⋅o⋅gy

[puh-thol-uh-jee]

–noun, plural -gies.

1.	the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.

2.	the conditions and processes of a disease.

3.	any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition.

Origin:
1590–1600; earlier pathologia < L < Gk pathología. See patho-, -logy

Related forms:

pa⋅thol⋅o⋅gist, noun

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pa·thol·o·gy (pā-thŏl'ə-jē)

n. pl. pa·thol·o·gies

The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.
The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease: the pathology of cancer.
A departure or deviation from a normal condition: "Neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime" (Time).

pa·thol'o·gist n.

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Cultural Dictionary

pathology [(puh-thol-uh-jee)]

A branch of medicine that explores the nature and cause of disease. Pathology also involves the study of bodily changes that occur as the result of disease.

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Word Origin & History

pathology

"science of diseases," 1611, from Fr. pathologie, from Mod.L. pathologia, from Gk. pathologikos "treating of disease," from pathos "suffering" (see pathos) + -logia "study," from logos "word." Pathologist first recorded 1650. Pathological "pertaining to disease" formed in Eng. 1688; sense of "worthy to be a subject of pathology, morbid, excessive" (e.g. pathological liar) is attested from 1845.

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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pa·thol·o·gist
Pronunciation: p&-'thäl-&-j&st, pa-
Function: noun
: a specialist in pathology;specifically : a physician who interprets and diagnoses the changes caused by disease in tissues and body fluids

Main Entry: pa·thol·o·gy
Pronunciation: -jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -gies
1 : the study of theessential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
2 : the anatomic and physiological deviations from the normal that constitutedisease or characterize a particular disease
3 : a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities pathology of the eye>

Medical Dictionary

pathologist pa·thol·o·gist (pā-thŏl'ə-jĭst)
n.
A specialist in pathology who practices chiefly in the laboratory as a consultant to clinical colleagues.

pathology pa·thol·o·gy (pā-thŏl'ə-jē)
n.

The medical science concerned with all aspects of disease with an emphasis on the essential nature, causes, and development of abnormal conditions, as well as with the structural and functional changes that result from disease processes.
The anatomical or functional manifestations of a disease.

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