pathology

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For more than twenty centuries his pathology was the foundation of all the medical sects.

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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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  • Postmortem is a wake-up call to forensic pathology, and every practitioner should read it. —  The Chicago Blog
  • In keeping with my theory of liberal pathology, the uncontrolled, childlike temper tantrums and obscenities that spew from leftists when faced with any disagreement is predictable. —  LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines
  • Incidences where the pathology is expressed to the horror of society is about 0. 1\% —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The pathology is yours when you consistently seek to demonise an entire section of the population based solely on your dislike of who they are, that truly is "an ugly and evil reality" and it is shameful to do. —  MercatorNet
  • If there were a cure for his pathology, it would be too cruel to cure him now. —  Think Progress
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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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