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pathologies

noun

Meaning

  1. The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
  2. The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
  3. Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

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