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pathobiology

pathobiology noun: the branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.

Noun

pathobiology (usually uncountable, plural pathobiologies)

  1. (usually) The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
  2. (usually) pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
  3. (usually) The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.

Forms of pathobiology

pluralpathobiologies

Origin of pathobiology

From patho- + biology.

Words formed from pathobiology

Questions about pathobiology

What does pathobiology mean?
Pathobiology means the branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
What part of speech is pathobiology?
Pathobiology is a noun.
What is the plural of pathobiology?
The plural of pathobiology is pathobiologies.

Words near pathobiology in the dictionary

  1. pathobiological
  2. pathobiologically
  3. pathobiologies
  4. pathobiologist
  5. pathobiologists
  6. pathobiology
  7. pathobiome
  8. pathobiomechanics
  9. pathobiomes
  10. pathobiont
  11. pathobiontic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathobiology (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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