pathoanatomy

noun 2

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noun

1

The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.

His work laid the foundations for nineteenth-century pathoanatomy, and helps explain why, within a few decades, Cullen and his colleagues had gone the way of Galen.

2

The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.

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