How to Use pathology in a Sentence

pathology

noun
  • The whole thing is clear evidence of the depth of human pathology.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • A few days before the start of the school year, positions in speech language pathology and math were still unfilled.
    Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To prepare the cell sample for the pathology lab, your provider will either spread the sample onto a slide or preserve it in a liquid.
    Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • The pathology center had just a handful of working scanners.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The moral stakes are clear, said Dr. Weldon Sanford, the current chief of pathology at the hospital, and require action.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But the weight of a growing baby and the cultural baggage of Black pathology was getting heavier.
    Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The week after, Meredith and I met with one of the surgeons to go over the pathology report analyzing my breast tissue.
    Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Of note, the participants had to have the presence of amyloid beta pathology.
    Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Your pathology isn’t that interesting to the project, Spitzer told Potter.
    National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The study, whose authors included Dr. Carter, touched on the very essence of the simmering debate over forensic pathology.
    New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • That means analysts must also be clear-eyed about the very real problems and pathologies foreign policy faced in the past.
    Elizabeth N. Saunders, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The pathology of the age is too much experience, too little savor.
    Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Many believe the pathology lies within teen-agers themselves.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • What Ramos did — stemming from a pathology found almost nowhere else on Earth — is as American as apple pie.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • When her post-surgery pathology report came back, her doctor was shocked: O'Keefe had stage 2 breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease.
    Amy Paturel, M.s., Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2022
  • About three hours later, the team had pulled the separated segment out, sent it in a specimen jar to pathology, and stitched Donohue’s chest shut.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The challenge is to make sure that the winners aren’t winning by extracting their gains in a way that creates a social pathology that’s bad for everyone.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
  • These figures open a window on a set of pathologies unique to America among developed countries.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The medical team, Brogna said, examines the entire person, not just the pathology, in preparing for any brain surgery.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Fowler was well-respected in the relatively small field of forensic pathology for many years.
    Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This is an unnervingly neat read but also a key point in the Kanye fan pathology: Great suffering produces great art.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Here are five ways digital pathology is transforming the field: 1.
    Morris Panner, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Speer’s work includes oversight of the clinic’s new speech-language pathology services.
    cleveland, 30 Sep. 2022
  • At that same time, Peterson had criticized a recent study of racial bias in forensic pathology.
    Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
  • That means the high school program inside the D.C. jail is supposed to have services, such as speech-language pathology, to ensure that each person is able to access the curriculum.
    Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Some things make enough sense for one of Goldsman’s Dan Brown adaptations, but not really enough for a series that wants to engage in real-world problems and pathologies.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • The main source of workers now is a fellowship program that offers training in forensic pathology.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The tissue was sent to pathology, where an analysis didn’t find the biopsy site, surgical staples or the 8 millimeter mass that showed up in a prior scan.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2022

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