Full Definition of PATHOLOGY
1: the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
2: something abnormal:
a : the structural and functional deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease
b : deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of something nonliving or nonmaterial
c : deviation giving rise to social ills <connections between these pathologies … and crime — Wendy Kaminer>
Origin of PATHOLOGY
New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the emotions, from path- + -logia -logy
First Known Use: 1611
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