Pathology (disambiguation)
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Pathology (Greek for pathos, suffering) and -logia, study of) is a medical field specializing in the categorization of diseases. Pathological is the adjective form of the term.
Pathology may also refer to:
In science
- Anatomic pathology, the study of macro and microscopic abnormalities in tissues
- Clinical pathology, medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine
- Pathological (mathematics), any mathematical phenomenon considered atypically bad or counterintuitive
- Pathological science, a process by which the scientific process is distorted through wishful thinking or subjective bias
- Phytopathology, the study of abnormalities in plants
- Psychopathology, any illness of the mind
- Speech pathology, the area of rehabilitative medicine that treats of speech or swallowing impediments
Arts and works
- Pathology (band), a death metal band
- Pathologic, a 2005 video game
- Pathology (film), a 2008 film
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