pathology

/pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

noun 4

Collocations

ADJ.

ocular, sexual, social

The doctor explained that his social pathology stemmed from years of untreated anxiety and isolation.

VERB + PATHOLOGY

building, plant, point, sample, sent, state, studying

The lab sent pathology samples to three different hospitals for analysis.

PATHOLOGY + NOUN

department, departments, dysphoria, gender, lab, vertebrate

The pathology department identified the rare disease in just three days.

PREP.

in, out

The doctor explained that the root cause of the disease lay in pathology rather than simple infection.

ADV.

immediately

The doctor immediately identified the pathology affecting the patient's heart during the examination.

Definitions

noun

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.

The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.

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.

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.

the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department

Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.

Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.

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Example Bank

The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.

Wiktionary

Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.

Wiktionary

the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department

Wiktionary

Fascism is a social pathology to be eradicated at all costs.

Tatoeba · #5701046

Right-wing ideologues are quick to point out the pathology of gender dysphoria but slow to acknowledge its standard treatment, gender transition.

Tatoeba · #5701053

Sami had a sexual pathology.

Tatoeba · #6129184

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, pathology is marked as literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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