Definition of pathology
pathologies
1 : the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them studied plant pathology
2 : something abnormal:a : the structural and functional deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease the pathology of pneumoniab : deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of something nonliving or nonmaterial the pathology of winec : deviation giving rise to social ills connections between these pathologies … and crime — Wendy Kaminer social pathology
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the pathology of lung diseases
Recent Examples of pathology from the Web
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In 2008, Ghent University awarded Martel and Pasmans a grant to study Bd and skin pathology in amphibians.
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At 2 a.m. on Aug. 10, a hearse carrying the hollowed, 50-pound body of Alice Dumas left Beloit, bound for the pathology department at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.
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At MedStar, Pullin, 57, was president of MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore and a MedStar senior vice president responsible for pharmacy, imaging, lab and pathology, behavioral health services, and transportation, Virtua said.
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In December, a pathology lab in India mistakenly uploaded the records of over 43,000 patients containing sensitive information, including names and blood tests for HIV.
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A pathology lab in India inadvertently published the health records of 43,000 patients in December, for instance.
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Welcome to North Carolina circa 2017, where all the passions and pathologies of American politics writ large are played out writ small — and with even more intensity.
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The pathologies might be unequal, but neither side is well.
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Basketball gave James the same escape from the pathology of inner-city Akron.
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Origin and Etymology of pathology
New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the emotions, from path- + -logia -logy
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PATHOLOGY Defined for English Language Learners
pathology
playDefinition of pathology for English Language Learners
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: the study of diseases and of the changes that they cause
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: changes in a person, an animal, or a plant that are caused by disease
Medical Dictionary
pathology
playMedical Definition of pathology
pathologies
1: the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
2: the anatomic and physiological deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease
3: a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities a new pathology of the eye
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