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palaeopathology

palaeopathology is the alternative form of paleopathology.

Meaning of paleopathology

Noun

paleopathology (countable and uncountable, plural paleopathologies)

  1. The study of ancient diseases.
  2. (countable) Any ancient disease itself.

Forms of palaeopathology

pluralpalaeopathologies

Origin of palaeopathology

From palaeo- + pathology.

Questions about palaeopathology

What is palaeopathology the alternative form of?
Palaeopathology is the alternative form of paleopathology.

Words near palaeopathology in the dictionary

  1. palaeoparasitology
  2. palaeopathological
  3. palaeopathologies
  4. palaeopathologist
  5. palaeopathologists
  6. palaeopathology
  7. palaeopedological
  8. palaeopedologist
  9. palaeopedologists
  10. palaeopedology
  11. palaeophiid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeopathology (page history and authors); paleopathology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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