The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.
n. The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease: the pathology of cancer.
n. A departure or deviation from a normal condition: "Neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime” ( Time).
n. The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
n. Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition; abnormality.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
n. The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The science of diseases; the sum of scientific knowledge concerning disease, its origin, its various physiological and anatomical features, and its causative relations.
n. The totality of the morbid conditions and processes in a disease.
n. A discourse on disease.
n. The science of the feelings, passions, and emotions.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
n. any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
Word Usage
"This pathology is the contagion or stain produced by the cognitive business of feeling and thinking about the world, which business halts with traumatically abrupt force, the world's nature lingering far past it and caring nothing for it, like the blind triumph of"