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pathoanatomy

pathoanatomy noun: the study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.

Noun

pathoanatomy (uncountable)

  1. The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
    • His work laid the foundations for nineteenth-century pathoanatomy, and helps explain why, within a few decades, Cullen and his colleagues had gone the way of Galen.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257
  2. The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.

Origin of pathoanatomy

From patho- + anatomy.

Questions about pathoanatomy

What does pathoanatomy mean?
Pathoanatomy means the study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
What part of speech is pathoanatomy?
Pathoanatomy is a noun.

Words near pathoanatomy in the dictionary

  1. pathoanatomic
  2. pathoanatomical
  3. pathoanatomically
  4. pathoanatomist
  5. pathoanatomists
  6. pathoanatomy
  7. pathoangiogenesis
  8. pathoantigen
  9. pathoantigenic
  10. pathoantigens
  11. pathoassay

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