'pathology' definitions:
Definition of 'pathology'
(from WordNet)
noun
The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
noun
Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
Definition of 'pathology'
From: GCIDE
- pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]
- 1. (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased functions of the body. --Virchow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pathology'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hereditary disease,
- iatrogenic disease,
- illness,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- malady,
- malaise,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- plant disease,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- worm disease