morbid anatomy

British  

noun

1. the branch of medical science concerned with the study of the structure of diseased organs and tissues

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Example Sentences

But what else means the minute morbid anatomy of death beds, the prurient curiosity to know how the dying one bore himself in the solemn passage?

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Upon this solid foundation the morbid anatomy of modern clinical medicine was built.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

How comes it that with so thoroughly healthy an organization as you have, you have such a taste for the morbid anatomy of the human heart, and such knowledge of it, too?

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

Classification on an etiological basis would attempt to associate conditions, the morbid anatomy and gravity of which would justly preclude their being combined.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

His early studies were directed chiefly to morbid anatomy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various