11-04-2017, 09:42 AM
Pathology (from the Greek roots of pathos (πάθος), meaning "experience" or "suffering", and -logia (-λογία), "study of") is a significant component of the causal study of disease and an important field In modern medicine and diagnosis. The term pathology itself may be broadly used to refer to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of fields of bioscience research and medical practices (including plant pathology and veterinary pathology), or more closely to describe work within the Contemporary medical field of "General Pathology", which includes a series of different but interrelated medical specialties that diagnose the disease, mainly through the analysis of samples of tissues, cells and body fluids. Used as a counting noun, "a pathology" (plural, "pathologies") may also refer to the predicted or actual progression of certain diseases (as in the statement "many different forms of cancer have various pathologies") and the affix Se Sometimes used to indicate a state of illness in cases of physical ailment (as in cardiomyopathy) and psychological conditions (such as psychopathy). Similarly, a pathological condition is a disease caused by the disease, rather than occurring physiologically. A doctor who practices pathology is called a pathologist.
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