Pathology

Noun

 * 1)  The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
 * 2) Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition; abnormality.

Derived terms

 * pathologist
 * anatomical pathology
 * chemical pathology
 * cytopathology


 * experimental pathology
 * forensic pathology
 * histopathology
 * plant pathology


 * psychopathology

Related terms

 * pathologic
 * pathological
 * pathobiology
 * pathophysiology

Thesaurus
abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease

Etymology
From πάθος: and -λογία:.

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