pathology
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəˈθɒlədʒi/
pathology (uncountable)
- (medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
- (clinical medicine) The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
- The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
- Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
- Synonyms: abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis
- French: pathologie
- German: Pathologie
- Italian: patologia
- Portuguese: patologia
- Russian: патоло́гия
- Spanish: patología
- French: pathologie
- German: Pathologie
- Italian: patologia
- Portuguese: patologia
- Russian: патоло́гия
- Spanish: patología
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