Pathology
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pathology is a noun meaning Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Meaning
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
More Meanings
- The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
Example Sentences
Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
Word Forms
- pathologies
Synonyms for pathology
Depending on context, synonyms include abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include medicine, disease, pathologic, pathological, diseased, illness.
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