English Explanatory Dictionary

pathology

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
  2. The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
  3. The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
  4. Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
  5. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

Pronunciation

/pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pathology.wav

Word forms

pathology pathologies

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der. Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logialbor. French -logie French pathologiebor. English pathology From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “disease”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, path- + -ology or patho- + -logy.

Synonyms

abnormality disease illness pathosis

Related words

pathobiology etiology etiopathogenesis pathoetiology pathogenesis pathophysiology

Derived words

acropathology aetiopathology anatomical pathology anatomopathology bacteriopathology biopathology bureaupathology cardiopathology chemical pathology clinical pathology clinicopathology copathology cytopathology dermatopathology dermopathology dystropathology ecopathology electropathology embryopathology endocrinopathology enteropathology etiopathology experimental pathology fetopathology forensic pathology gastropathology graphopathology gynecopathology haematopathology haemopathology hæmopathology hematopathology hemopathology hepatopathology hippopathology histopathology iatropathology ichthyopathology immunopathology inflammopathology lipopathology macropathology mechanopathology meteoropathology micropathology molecular pathology morphopathology myopathology nanopathology nephropathology neurohistopathology neuropathology neurophysiopathology nonpathology odontopathology oncopathology onychopathology ophthalmopathology osteopathology otopathology

Translations

Bulgarian: патология Chinese Mandarin: 病理學 /病理学 Finnish: patologia Greek: παθολογική ανατομία Hindi: विकृतिविज्ञान Indonesian: patologi Macedonian: патоло́гија Polish: patologia Tamil: நோயியல்
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