pathologist

[puh-thol-uh-jee] Example Sentences Origin

pa·thol·o·gy

[puh-thol-uh-jee]
noun, plural pa·thol·o·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 < Latin < Greek pathología. See patho-, -logy

pa·thol·o·gist, noun
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Pathologist is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example Sentences
  • Some war stories not of this base origin, however, are scarcely less worthy the attention of the pathologist.
  • Reading the slides, the pathologist has to try to extract more sophisticated information from tinier biopsies.
  • No banana scientists, no plant pathologist denies that.
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World English Dictionary
pathology (pəˈθɒlədʒɪ)
 
n , pl -gies
1.  the branch of medicine concerned with the cause, origin, and nature of disease, including the changes occurring as a result of disease
2.  the manifestations of disease, esp changes occurring in tissues or organs
3.  any variant or deviant condition from normal
 
pa'thologist
 
n

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pathologist
1640s, from pathology + -ist.
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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.

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