Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
- noun The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease.
- noun A departure or deviation from a normal condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of diseases; the sum of scientific knowledge concerning disease, its origin, its various physiological and anatomical features, and its causative relations.
- noun The totality of the morbid conditions and processes in a disease.
- noun A discourse on disease.
- noun The science of the feelings, passions, and emotions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
- noun (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
- noun a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased functions of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
- noun Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition; abnormality.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
- noun any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here the pathology is attributed to a narrator who crosses "the dreary moor/In the clear moonlight" and reaches an abandoned hut, where he has his own version of the hunger-experience.
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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This pathology is the contagion or stain produced by the cognitive business of feeling and thinking about the world, which business halts with traumatically abrupt force, the world's nature lingering far past it and caring nothing for it, like the blind triumph of
Introduction 2008
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This film looks at what it calls the pathology behind the Wal-Mart bashing and holds the chain actually improves communities and its workers ` lives.
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I'm about as hardcore a libertarian as they come, but I have to say I find Mr. Kling's attempt to pin the entirely progressive philosophy on a kind of pathology is a bit dishonest and intellectually lazy.
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And in the fraternity of coaching, this pathology is considered a strength, not a weakness.
Jon Kerr: Football Coaches are Cut From a Different Cloth Jon Kerr 2010
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And in the fraternity of coaching, this pathology is considered a strength, not a weakness.
Jon Kerr: Football Coaches are Cut From a Different Cloth Jon Kerr 2010
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Residents and fellows training in pathology as well as in other specialties such as gastroenterology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and at the University of Pennsylvania and from a broad range of other programs can rotate through the department for instruction in fetal and pediatric pathology.
Anatomic Pathology 2010
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I think a primary vector of its economic and cultural pathology is the place of "smartness" in the white subculture you are talking about.
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And in the fraternity of coaching, this pathology is considered a strength, not a weakness.
Jon Kerr: Football Coaches are Cut From a Different Cloth Jon Kerr 2010
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And in the fraternity of coaching, this pathology is considered a strength, not a weakness.
Jon Kerr: Football Coaches are Cut From a Different Cloth Jon Kerr 2010
MaryW commented on the word pathology
Judy Melinek, M.D. & T.J. Mitchell, Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (New York: Scribner: 2014), pp. 13-14 (emphasis added).March 9, 2016