| pathology | |
| 1. n. (medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. | |
| 2. n. (clinical medicine) The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians. | |
| The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype. | |
| 3. n. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation. | |
