Associations to the word «Pathology»

Wiktionary

PATHOLOGY, noun. (medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
PATHOLOGY, noun. The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
PATHOLOGY, noun. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

Dictionary definition

PATHOLOGY, noun. The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases.
PATHOLOGY, noun. Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats