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pathology

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Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition

Word definitions for pathology in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.] (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc. Note: Pathology is general or special, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pathology (Greek for pathos , suffering ) and -logia, study of ) is a medical field specializing in the categorization of diseases. Pathological is the adjective form of the term. Pathology may also refer to:

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN department ▪ The postmortem was done in the pathology department of the Perth hospital. ▪ The different techniques used in hospital pathology departments before samples are tested may, therefore, affect results. ▪ A ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. 2 The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases any deviation from a healthy or normal condition

Usage examples of pathology.

Since Walter was such a fund of anatomic and physiologic pathology, he was presented at all the conferences with everyone offering various opinions.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Illness of whatever sort, exopathic or autopathic, comes under Pathology.

Consequently there was practically nothing that we could not tackle between the three of us, either in bacteriology, pathology, sanitation or treatment of epidemic disease.

The pathology of this deformity is obscure, but there might have been malposition in utero.

Thus parasitism, a form of plant pathology, exists as well for all the higher life-forms.

Laurie Prine had found several stories in the eastern papers analyzing the pathology of police suicides and a handful of smaller spot news reports on specific suicides from around the country.

Consequently, this is the mind-set that prompted in 1984 the active inclusion of forensic pathology in the criminal profiling activities of the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

The interface between the disciplines of criminal profiling and forensic pathology forms the basis upon which a substantial portion of the profiling exercise is established.

At the profiling session the case history, victimology, and forensic pathology findings are presented and discussed relative to their significance in terms of the specific issues of the case.

Again, the listing of possible profiling issues related to forensic pathology is bounded only by the dynamics of the circumstances of the case.

Conclusion It should be obvious by this point that there is more to the practice of forensic pathology and its relationship to criminal profiling than determining the cause and manner of death.

As important as it is to know what happened to the victim in order to ascertain the type of person that would be most likely to have committed a given violent crime, to that extent it is also essential to include the forensic sciences, and forensic pathology in particular, within the criminal profiling methodology.

But suggestions that the novel exhibits a pathological structure go only part of the way: the structure reflects a pathology in Russian society that links femininity, even sacralized femininity, with degradation.