pathology
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- n the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
- n any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
- Pathology is the study disease through observation and laboratory examination made on the patient or on any material obtained from the patient.
- In 1919, Fuller left Westborough for Boston University Medical School to teach pathology and worked there for 34 years until blindness caused by diabetes forced him to retire.
- We were still waiting for the pathology report anyway.