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   pathology

   /pəˈθɒlədʒi/

   noun

   • 1. 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"
   • ▪ pathological features considered collectively; the typical behaviour of a disease: "the pathology of Huntington's disease"
   • ▪ a pathological condition: "the dominant pathology is multiple sclerosis"
   • ▪ mental, social, or linguistic abnormality or malfunction: "the city's inability to cope with the pathology of a burgeoning underclass"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from modern or medieval Latin pathologia(see patho-, -logy).

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