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Pathology
Pa*thol"o*gy\, n. (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.Pathology
Pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. Pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.] (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc. Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases. Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body. --Virchow.
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Language Translation for : pathology
Spanish:
patología,
German:
die Pathologie,
Japanese:
病理学
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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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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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>
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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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pathology (pə-thŏl'ə-jē) Pronunciation Key
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