pathology
[puh-thol-uh-jee]
- the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- the conditions and processes of a disease.
- any deviation from a healthy, normal, or efficient condition.
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Origin of pathology
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Contemporary Examples
He admitted in court that he was not a pathologist, and that he did not have any formal training in ballistics or sound.
The expert opinion attached to the report reads like an article by a movie critic and not by a pathologist.
She had contracted a form of blood poisoning as well as an E. coli infection, a pathologist found.
“The pathologist believes it is highly unlikely the death was through natural causes,” Norfolk police said in a statement.
The Discovery of a Body on the Queen’s Estate Starts Her Jubilee Year Off BadlyEdward Platt
January 3, 2012
Historical Examples
In other words, they are diseased, and fall within the domain of the pathologist.
The Problems of Psychical ResearchHereward Carrington
Mr. Phillips is rather a pathologist of fiction than a critic.
And there's Murphy the pathologist, and Stoddart the eye man.
The Man from ArchangelA. Conan Doyle
Presently Pete remarked: "Surgeon an' pathologist is the Perfessor."
Bunch GrassHorace Annesley Vachell
The attacks were so vicious that the pathologist, Captain Watson, sought for special organisms, but found only staphylococcus.
The Australian Army Medical Corps in EgyptJames W. Barrett
pathology
- the branch of medicine concerned with the cause, origin, and nature of disease, including the changes occurring as a result of disease
- the manifestations of disease, esp changes occurring in tissues or organs
- any variant or deviant condition from normal
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Word Origin and History for pathologist
pathology
n.
"science of diseases," 1610s, from French pathologie (16c.), from medical Latin pathologia "study of disease," from Greek pathos "suffering" (see pathos) + -logia "study" (see -logy). In reference to the study of abnormal mental conditions from 1842. Ancient Greek pathologia was "study of the passions;" the Greek word for "science of diseases" was pathologike ("pathologics").
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
pathologist
(pă-thŏl′ə-jĭst)- A specialist in pathology who practices chiefly in the laboratory as a consultant to clinical colleagues.
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pathology
(pă-thŏl′ə-jē)- 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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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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pathology
[pə-thŏl′ə-jē]
- The scientific study of disease and its causes, processes, and effects.
- The physical and mental abnormalities that result from disease or trauma.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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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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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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