pathology

1. The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry). (uncountable)
2. The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time. (literary, uncountable) · Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
3. 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. (uncountable) · the plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department
4. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation. (uncountable) · 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.

Plural pathologies