OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12787

pathology

/pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
patología
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.
Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
patología
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
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