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noun

pathology

the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases

In a sentence

Six example sentences with pathology, each labelled with its topic.

  • The tissue went to pathology on Friday, and the report came back describing an inflammation nobody had expected.

    Medicine

  • Debates about what counts as illness drag pathology into philosophy, since naming a condition already implies a standard of health.

    Philosophy

  • The startup sells a scanner that photographs slides so a pathology lab can send second opinions abroad overnight.

    Startups

  • A pathology course teaches students to read a stained slide the way a geologist reads layers of rock.

    Science

  • Virchow founded modern pathology in the 1850s by insisting that every illness begins with a change inside individual cells.

    History

  • Software that scans slides for a pathology lab flags suspicious regions so a human reviewer starts with the hardest cases.

    Technology

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