Pathosis vs. Pathology
Pathosis and Pathology Definitions
Pathosis
A disease; a pathologic condition.
Pathology
The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.
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.
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.
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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.
Pathology
The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
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Pathology
Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
