pathology

/pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/

pathology noun: the clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).

Noun

pathology (usually uncountable, plural pathologies)

(usually, clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
- The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
(literary, usually) The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
- Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
(usually, life sciences) Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.
- the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department
(usually) Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
- Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
- Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
Synonyms:

abnormality, disease, illness, pathosis

pathology meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

pathology in Hindi

medical specialty: विकृतिविज्ञान vikŕtivijñān
branch of medicine: विकृतिविज्ञान vikŕtivijñān

pathology in Tamil

medical specialty: நோயியல் nōyiyal
branch of medicine: நோயியல் nōyiyal

pathology in Bengali

বিকারতত্ত্ব

pathology in Malayalam

pathology: രോഗനിദാനശാസ്ത്രം rōganidānaśāstraṁ

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pathology in Kannada: ರೋಗನಿದಾನ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ರೋಗ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಕುತ್ತದರಿಮೆ, ರೋಗ ಲಕ್ಷಣ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ
pathology in Tagalog: palasakitan
pathology in Arabic: عِلْمُ الأَمْرَاض ʕilmu l-ʔamrāḍ
pathology in Malay: kaji penyakit, patologi
pathology in Indonesian: patologi
pathology in Persian: پاتولوژی pâtoloži, آسیبشناسی âsib-šenâsi
pathology in Vietnamese: bịnh lý học, bệnh học, bệnh, bệnh tật
pathology in Myanmar: ရောဂါဗေဒ rau:gabeda.

Examples of pathology in a sentence

The International Society of Canine Cosmetologists says, "Ear plucking may cause pathology.
For iris and iridochoroidal melanoma, paraffin-embedded tissue sections were retrieved from the pathology department.
Nonetheless, the underlying pathology manifests beyond motoneuron degeneration, affecting also widespread extramotor areas.

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Synonyms of pathology

Forms of pathology

plural	pathologies

Plural of pathology: pathologies

Origin of pathology

From French pathologie, from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “disease”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, path- + -ology or patho- + -logy.

Words formed from pathology

Phrases with pathology

speech–language pathology

Words that rhyme with pathology

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Questions about pathology

What does pathology mean?: Pathology means the clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
What is pathology in Hindi?: Pathology in Hindi is विकृतिविज्ञान (vikŕtivijñān). See Pathology meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pathology?: Pathology is a noun.
How do you pronounce pathology?: Pathology is pronounced /pəˈθɒləd͡ʒi/.
What is the plural of pathology?: The plural of pathology is pathologies.

Words near pathology in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: pathology (page history and authors); pathology (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); രോഗനിദാനശാസ്ത്രം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); pathology (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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