the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes:research people skilled in experimental pathology
Medicine pathological features considered collectively; the typical behaviour of a disease:the pathology of Huntington’s disease
Medicine a pathological condition:the dominant pathology is multiple sclerosis
[usually with modifier] mental, social, or linguistic abnormality or malfunction:the city’s inability to cope with the pathology of a burgeoning underclass
Derivatives
pathologist
noun
Origin:
early 17th century: from modern or medieval Latin pathologia(see patho-, -logy)
pathology in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of pathology in the US English dictionary
