pathology

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noun

1. the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
pathological, pathologic, pathologist
• Members of this Topic:
active, inactive, indolent, latent, quiescent,
functional, organic, specific, nonspecific, stenosed, stenotic,
irritable, fistular, fistulate, fistulous, benign, malignant,
spasm, strangulation, jactitation, jactation, nebula, wart,
verruca, plaque, blister, bulla, bleb, excrescence,
shock, insufficiency, growth, dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis,
mummification, gas gangrene, clostridial myonecrosis, emphysematous gangrene, emphysematous phlegmon, gangrenous emphysema,
gas phlegmon, progressive emphysematous necrosis, irritation, amyloid, incubation
• Hypernyms:
medical science
• Hyponyms:
paleopathology, palaeopathology
2. any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
• Derivationally related forms:
pathological, pathologic, pathologist
• Hypernyms:
ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
• Hyponyms:
acidosis, alkalosis, ankylosis, anchylosis, arteriectasis,
arteriectasia, arthropathy, asynergy, asynergia, asystole, cardiac arrest,
cardiopulmonary arrest, diverticulosis, flux, fluorosis, gammopathy, glossolalia,
angiopathy, aphagia, stenosis, stricture, atherogenesis, ascites,
azymia, bacteremia, bacteriemia, bacteriaemia, sclerosis, induration,
lipomatosis, lithiasis, cartilaginification, cyst, endometriosis, adenomyosis,
adhesion, hemochromatosis, iron-storage disease, iron overload, bronzed diabetes, infarct,
infarction, macrocytosis, fibrosis, malacia, mastopathy, mazopathy,
neuropathy, myopathy, osteoporosis, priapism, demineralization, demineralisation,
pyorrhea, pyorrhoea, uremia, uraemia, azotemia, azotaemia,
azoturia, lesion, lymphadenopathy, gangrene, sphacelus, slough,
hyperbilirubinemia, palilalia, reflux, otorrhea, rhinopathy, hydronephrosis,
atelectasis, anoxemia, coprolalia, autoimmunity, dysfunction, disfunction,
sarcoidosis, carotenemia, xanthemia, stasis, uropathy, varicosis,
viremia, viraemia, volvulus