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  2. Pathology - Wikipedia

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    Pathology is the study of disease. [1] The word pathology also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices.

  3. Pathology (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Anatomic pathology, the study of macro and microscopic abnormalities in tissues and cells. Clinical pathology, medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine; AP/CP stands for combined anatomical and clinical pathology.

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    Pathology-pathy: denotes (with a negative sense) a disease, or disorder Greek πᾰ́θος (páthos), suffering, accident sociopathy, neuropathy: pauci-Few Latin paucus: Pauci-immune: pector-breast or chest Latin pectus: pectoralgia, pectoriloquy, pectorophony: ped-, -ped-, -pes : of or pertaining to the foot; -footed Latin pēs, pēd-, foot ...

  5. Disease - Wikipedia

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    Pathosis or pathology Pathosis (plural pathoses) is synonymous with disease. The word pathology also has this sense, in which it is commonly used by physicians in the medical literature, although some editors prefer to reserve pathology to its other senses.

  6. Pathophysiology - Wikipedia

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    Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during a disease state, whereas physiology is the biological discipline that describes processes or mechanisms operating within an organism. Pathology describes the abnormal or undesired condition (symptoms of a disease), whereas pathophysiology seeks to explain ...

  7. Clinical pathology - Wikipedia

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    Clinical pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology, molecular pathology, and Immunohaematology.

  8. Histopathology - Wikipedia

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    Micrograph showing contraction band necrosis, a histopathologic finding of myocardial infarction (heart attack).. Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ἱστός histos 'tissue', πάθος pathos 'suffering', and -λογία-logia 'study of') is the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease.

  9. Pathognomonic - Wikipedia

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    Pathognomonic (synonym pathognomic [1]) is a term, often used in medicine, that means "characteristic for a particular disease". A pathognomonic sign is a particular sign whose presence means that a particular disease is present beyond any doubt. The absence of a pathognomonic sign does not rule out the disease.