Medical Dictionary
pathology
noun pa·thol·o·gy \-jē\
plural pa·thol·o·gies
Medical Definition of PATHOLOGY
1
: the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
2
: the anatomic and physiological deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease
3
: a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities <a new pathology of the eye>
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