Definition of "pathology" in inglés

noun

1. The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.

2. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

   • Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
   • Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.