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Synonyms for pathology

Grammar : Noun
Spell : puh-thol-uh-jee
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈθɒl ə dʒi

Top 10 synonyms for pathology
Other synonyms for the word pathology

Définition of pathology

Origin :
  • "science of diseases," 1610s, from French pathologie (16c.), from medical Latin pathologia "study of disease," from Greek pathos "suffering" (see pathos) + -logia "study" (see -logy). In reference to the study of abnormal mental conditions from 1842. Ancient Greek pathologia was "study of the passions;" the Greek word for "science of diseases" was pathologike ("pathologics").
  • As in botany : noun study of plants
Example sentences :
  • A place in pathology was first assured to them by Virchow's discovery of leukæmia.
  • Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich
  • Muir, R. Contribution to the physiology and pathology of the blood.
  • Extract from : « Histology of the Blood » by Paul Ehrlich
  • This has been fully established by pathology, as well as by my own experiments.
  • Extract from : « Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 » by Various
  • There was practically no histology taught, and little or no pathology.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • We have thus our 'pathology' or theory of the passive sensibilities of man.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
  • This case presents a question in pathology which is of interest.
  • Extract from : « Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society » by Joseph Bradford Cox
  • Nothing in pathology has exceeded the application of metaphysics.
  • Extract from : « Christian Science » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • Very little was said of pathology; and of bacteriology next to nothing.
  • Extract from : « Experiments on Animals » by Stephen Paget
  • His pathology is that of obstructions, a curious fancy of the learned.
  • Extract from : « A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) » by Charles Creighton
  • Brown-Squard was lecturing on the pathology of the nervous system.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 » by William James
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