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Histopathology vs. Pathology

Histopathology and Pathology Definitions

Histopathology

The study of the microscopic anatomical changes in diseased tissue.

Pathology

The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.

Histopathology

(biology) The microscopic study of tissue, especially of abnormal tissue as a result of disease.

Pathology

The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease
The pathology of cancer.

Pathology

A departure or deviation from a normal condition
"Neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime" (Time).

Pathology

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.
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Pathology

The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.

Pathology

The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.

Pathology

Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
The plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department

Pathology

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.

Pathology

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

Pathology

The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
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Pathology

The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases

Pathology

Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition

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