-jē, -ji noun
( -es )
Etymology: New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the passions, from patho- path- + -logia -logy
1. : the study of abnormality ; especially : the study of diseases, their essential nature, causes, and development, and the structural and functional changes produced by them
2. : something abnormal:
a.
(1) : the anatomic and physiologic deviations from the normal in the tissues of animals and plants that are manifested as disease
the study of human pathology
(2) : the complex of signs, symptoms, and bodily changes that characterize a particular disease
the pathology of pneumonia
b. : comparable abnormality of nonliving material
the pathology of steel
pathology of wine
c. : deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of nonmaterial things
the pathology of reaction
social pathology
3. : a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities
a new pathology of the eye