pathology

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The impulse to see enemies everywhere, bent on exterminating Jews, may grow out of centuries of persecution in diaspora (although part of the pathology is a tragic forgetting of the many diaspora Jews who lived relatively undisturbed, and sometimes even befriended, by their gentile neighbors).

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  1. noun The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.
  2. noun The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease: the pathology of cancer.
  3. noun A departure or deviation from a normal condition: "Neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime” (Time).

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  • And not only will he recover, but certainly the news of the pathology is a gift from God. —  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Cindy McCain and Physicians Discuss Preventative Medicine - August 23, 2000
  • When you look at cancer diagnostics and look at long term what is really happening and that's one of the reasons why we acquired AmeriPath that it is just not the tissue; anatomic pathology which is morphology and histology is now combined with esoteric testing which is the molecular pathology, and then the question, how do you really get this information to various people knowing there is also shortage of number of specialists. —  Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
  • The impulse to see enemies everywhere, bent on exterminating Jews, may grow out of centuries of persecution in diaspora (although part of the pathology is a tragic forgetting of the many diaspora Jews who lived relatively undisturbed, and sometimes even befriended, by their gentile neighbors). —  iToot Stream
  • Forensic pathology which is becoming much more sophisticated where such things as DNA are put in, such things as the condition of the dirt become a factor, such things that are obvious like whether the skeleton was niched or if it was somebody who stabbed somebody. —  CNN Transcript May 26, 2002
  • If our theory of their pathology is the correct one, and the cause of the lesions is truly the softening of the sesamoidal bony structure and independent of any changes in the ligamentous fibers, the possibility of a solid osseous union can hardly be considered admissible Treatment._--In respect to the treatment to be recommended and instituted it can be employed only with any rational hope of benefit during the incubation, and with the anticipatory purpose of prevention. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
 

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  1. = French pathologie = Spanish patología = Portuguese pathologia = Italian patologia, from Greek as if *παθολογία (from παθολογεῑν, treat of disease), for which was used παθολογική (sc. τέχνη, art), from πάθος, disease, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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