pathobiology
Meanings
noun
- The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
- pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
- The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.
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Etymology
From patho- + biology.
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