Other forms: pathologies
Pathology is the branch of medicine that examines tissue and fluids to find what is wrong. Send it to pathology, the pathology report, forensic pathology.
Almost every diagnosis of cancer is made by a pathologist looking at cells rather than by a scan, which is why the report is what everybody waits for. In loose use, the pathology of something means what is wrong with it.
1nounpathologyThe branch of medicine that examines diseased tissue and body fluids to identify what is wrong and, after a death, why.
“After the sudden death, the pathology report showed he had a rare heart condition.”
pathology is a field.
Greek pathos, disease or suffering, plus logia, a study.
French
pathologie
English, today
pathology
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Borrowed from French pathologie, from grc + πᾰ́θος. From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (“disease”) and -λογία (“study of”). by surface analysis, path- + -ology or patho- + -logy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA