Pathology

Definitions: Pathology

Pathology

Noun

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

2. Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition.

Date "pathology" was first used: 1611. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Pathology

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	The study of abnormality, especially the study of diseases. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pathology

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pathology is the study of disease. It is a form of science that involves testing samples and diagnosing physical health problems from their evidence. Pathologists are skilled in interpreting test results and physical evidence.

Synonyms within Context: Pathology

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Pathology, etiology, nosology.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pathology

English words defined with "pathology": amaurosis, amblyopia, amblyopic ♦ bronzed diabetes ♦ Celluar pathology ♦ dermatologist, diseased ♦ forensic medicine, forensic pathology ♦ hemochromatosis, Hippopathology, Humoral pathology, Humoralist ♦ indolent, insufficiency, iron overload, iron-storage disease ♦ Laryngology, lipomatosis ♦ morbid, multiple mononeuropathy, myopathy ♦ neurobiology, neuropathy, nonspecific ♦ Pathogeny, pathologic, pathological, pathologically, Pathologies ♦ shock, skin doctor, specific, stenosed, stenotic, strangulation ♦ uropathy ♦ Zoopathology. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pathology": artist, scientific, AUDIOLOGIST, aviation pathology ♦ BIOLOGICAL AIDE, Bourneville syndrome, Bourneville's disease ♦ Carotid Artery Diseases, Cathepsin B, cellular pathology, clinical veterinaria ♦ educational/development assistan, epiloia ♦ forest pathology ♦ Hantaan Virus, Histocytological Preparation Techniques, histologis, HISTOPATHOLOGIST, histopathology, hypertrophic tuberous cerebrosclerosis ♦ ILLUSTRATOR, MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, Image Cytometry ♦ Medicare Part B ♦ Nerve Degeneration ♦ OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT, ORAL PATHOLOGIST ♦ Pars Planitis, pathologic histology, Pathology Department, Hospital, Pathology, Oral, Pathology, Surgical, Pathology, Veterinary, plant pathology, psychologist, clinica ♦ Social Planning, Speech-Language Pathology ♦ Technology, Medical, teratologic, teratological, tuberous sclerosis ♦ VETERINARY PATHOLOGIST. (references)

Etymologies containing "pathology": Phytopathology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pathology

Domain	Title
Books	Advanced Algorithmic Approaches to Medical Image Segmentation: State Of The Art Applications in Cardiology, Neurology, Mammography and Pathology (reference) Skin Cancer: An Illustrated Guide to the Aetiology, Clinical Features, Pathology and Management of Benign and Malignant Cutaneous Tumours (reference) The Foot: Pathology, Aetiology, Semiology, Clinical Investigation and Therapy (reference) Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling (reference) Neuropathology and Ophthalmologic Pathology of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A Color Atlas (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	American Journal Of Clinical Pathology (reference) Gyobyo Kenkyu = Fish Pathology (reference) Human Pathology (reference) Journal Of General Plant Pathology (reference) Modern Pathology (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Pathology

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	Shown is a oriental technician performing a breast pathology test on some frozen breast tissue. She is standing and wearing a white lab coat. She appears to be compressing breast tissue in a small lab dish and inspecting it. This is one of the steps in an estrogen receptor assay. Results suggest whether removal of ovaries or use of antiestrogen drugs are likely to be effective.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Shows interior wide shot of Pathology Department of the Central Cancer Research Lab. Dr. William C. Hueper sits in lab working through microscope.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Dissected rat showing evidence of echinococcosis due to Echinococcus multilocularis in organs at 45 days. Gross pathology.Credit: CDC.		Classification of mycoses by primary site of pathology.Credit: CDC.
	The introduction of toxins into the marine environment have drastic effects on the organisms that live there. The pathology of this Windowpane Flounder shows a liver nodule.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.		U.S. Armed Forces Institute Of Pathology.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Central Medical Department Laboratory, Dijon, France : Personnel, pathology department.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Philosophical Pathology / Spy [pseud.].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Laboratories of pathology, pharmacology, and physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress.		Test tubes containing bovine tubercular bacteria at Division of Pathology, United States Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm, Beltsville, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pathology

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Individuals with active ear pathology require treatment and re-evaluation prior to implantation. (references)
		The pathology community should adopt a uniform grading system and routinely use this discriminant. (references)
		The rising mean age of dialysis patients likely will further increase this cardiovascular pathology. (references)
Business		The first group covers solutions for the provision of patient registration, admissions, transfers; finance systems; materials, building, and facilities management; and pathology and radiology systems. (references)
		On average, cholesterol tests cost between $20 and $40; osteoporosis tests, about $35; and H. Pylori tests, between $20 and $25. Results for H. Pylori and most cholesterol tests are generally available immediately, the rest take about a week. Many pharmacies market these tests as their own; however, the vast majority use equipment from, or send samples to, the labs of one London company, Pathology Management Company (PMC). PMC says that it expects 1,800 U.K. pharmacies to offer its testing services. (references)
Economic History	Uk	The NHS budget has been increased by 35 percent through 2005, to enable the purchase of capital equipment such as IV pumps, lasers, imagery systems, pathology laboratories and hospital bed systems. (references)
	Australia	Further increases are likely due to the rise in the number of Australians with private health insurance, the corporatization of services such as pathology, radiology and general practice, and the considerable role of the private sector in the care of Australia's aging population. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pathology

"Pathology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pathology" is used about 308 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	308	16,464

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Pathology

Expressions using "pathology": aviation pathology ♦ Celluar pathology ♦ cellular pathology ♦ forensic pathology ♦ forest pathology ♦ Humoral pathology ♦ plant pathology ♦ Speech-Language Pathology. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pathology": anti-pathology, psycho-pathology.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pathology

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pathology	412
speech pathology	265
forensic pathology	175
speech language pathology	114
oral pathology	48
armed force institute pathology	34
american board pathology	33
plant pathology	27
american journal of pathology	24
clinical pathology	22
american society of clinical pathology	21
college of american pathology	19
pathology job	19
pathology school speech	18
american clinical journal pathology	16
journal of pathology	16
pathology laboratory	15
melanoma pathology	15
veterinary pathology	15
human pathology	14
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Modern Translations: Pathology

Language		Translations for "pathology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		patologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏علم الأمراض, ‏الباثولوجي. (various references)

Bulgarian		патология. (various references)

Chinese		病理学 (pathologies), 病理 . (various references)

Czech		patologie. (various references)

Danish		patologi. (various references)

Dutch		pathologie, ziektenleer, ziektenkunde. (various references)

Farsi		پاتولوژی . (various references)

Finnish		patologia. (various references)

French		pathologie. (various references)

German		Pathologie. (various references)

Greek		παθολογία. (various references)

Hebrew		פתולו�'י�". (various references)

Hungarian		patológia, kórtan (nosogenic). (various references)

Indonesian		ilmu penyakit. (various references)

Italian		patologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		病理学 , 病理 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		びょうりがく, びょうり. (various references)

Korean		병리 (pathologies). (various references)

Manx		patoaylleeaght, gorley-oaylleeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		athologypay

Portuguese		patologista (pathologist), patologia (pathos). (various references)

Romanian		patologie. (various references)

Russian		патология. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		patologija. (various references)

Spanish		patología. (various references)

Swedish		patologi. (various references)

Turkish		patoloji. (various references)

Ukranian		патологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		bệnh lý, bệnh học. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pathology

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	pathos. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Pathology

Derivations
	Words ending with "pathology": histopathology, immunopathology, neuropathology, paleopathology, physiopathology, phytopathology, psychopathology. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pathology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pahtology, patholog, pathologhy, pathologie, pathologt, patology, patrology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pathology"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pathology" (pronounced puthÄ"lujē)
7	-u th Ä" l u j ē	mythology, ornithology.
6	-th Ä" l u j ē	anthology, ethology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, otology, paleontology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
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Anagrams: Pathology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-l-o-o-p-t-y"
	-2 letters: apology.
	-3 letters: apolog, galoot, hoopla, otalgy, photog, phytol.
	-4 letters: altho, aptly, atopy, galop, gloat, glyph, goopy, haply, hoagy, hooly, hooty, hotly, lathy, loath, loopy, lotah, ology, patly, photo, phyla, platy, typal, yahoo.
	-5 letters: agly, ahoy, alto, atop, gaol, gapy, ghat, glop, goal, goat, goop, halo, halt, holp, holt, holy, hoop, hoot, hoya, hyla, hypo, lath, logo, logy, loop, loot, lota, loth, oath, opah, opal, paly, path, paty, phat, phot, plat, play, plot, ploy, pogy, polo, poly, pooh, pool, toga, tola, tool, toph, toyo, typo, yoga, yogh.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-h-l-o-o-p-t-y"
	+3 letters: anthropology, pathobiology.
	+4 letters: ophthalmology.
	+5 letters: histopathology, metapsychology, neuropathology, paleopathology, pathologically, photogenically, phytopathology.
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