Pathology meaning

pă-thŏlə-jē
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Pathology is defined as a branch of medical science that studies the nature, effects, causes and consequences of disease.
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Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition; abnormality.
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A person must go to school for a medical degree plus an additional three to four years, concentrating solely in the field of pathology.
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The physical and mental abnormalities that result from disease or trauma.
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Pathologists work in hospital or private practice settings, looking at samples of tissue, blood, and fluid to identify abnormal factors of the samples and make a diagnosis of a patient’s condition and the disease that is causing their bodies to behave abnormally.

An example of pathology is when a pathologist studies the cells removed during a biopsy to test for signs of cancer.

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A departure or deviation from a normal condition.
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All the conditions, processes, or results of a particular disease.
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There are also many sub-specialties in the field of pathology that a pathologists can choose to concentrate on when studying.
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Pathologists are required to be board certified in the field of pathology once they have completed schooling.
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Most pathologists choose to become either clinical pathologists working in a lab or anatomical pathologists who practice in a sub-specialty of anatomical pathology.
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The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
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The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease.

The pathology of cancer.

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The branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease, esp. with the structural and functional changes caused by disease.
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Any abnormal variation from a sound or proper condition.
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The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease.

The pathology of cancer.

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The scientific study of disease and its causes, processes, and effects.
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(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
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The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
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Origin of pathology

  • From Ancient Greek πάθος (pathos, “disease") and -λογία (-logia, “study of").

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Pathology Sentence Examples

  • Pathology is the science of disease in all its manifestations, whether structural or functional, progressive or regressive.

  • It is when studied on these lines that pathology finds its proper place as a department of biology.

  • This subject brings the domain of pathology, however, into touch with that of variation, and we are profoundly ignorant as to the complex of external conditions which would decide in any given case how far a variation in form would be prejudicial or otherwise to the continued existence of a species.

  • Hippocrates had no opportunity of verification by necropsy, and Sydenham ignored pathology; yet the clinical features of many but recently described diseases, such, for example, as that named after Graves, and myxoedema, both associated with perversions of the thyroid gland, lay as open to the eye of physicians in the past as to our own.

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