PATHOLOGY


Meaning of PATHOLOGY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -jē ]

noun

( plural -gies )

Etymology: New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the emotions, from path- + -logia -logy

Date: 1611

1. : the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them

2. : something abnormal:

a. : the structural and functional deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease

b. : deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of something nonliving or nonmaterial

c. : deviation giving rise to social ills

connections between these pathologies …and crime — Wendy Kaminer

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