pathology

noun5

1. •
   The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
2. •
   The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).

   • The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
3. •
   The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.

   • Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
4. •
   Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.

   • the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department
5. •
   Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

   • Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
   • Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.