Pathology
noun
It is the study of diseases and the changes they cause in the body.
Rebecca is specializing in pathology in her medical studies

Often appears as...
- pathology department
- pathology reports
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Academic
noun
It is the details and processes of an illness or problem.
Behavioral researchers are studying the pathology of addiction to understand it better

Often appears as...
- behavioral pathology
- social pathology
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Academic
noun
This is a symptom or distinctive characteristic of a disease.
Frequent coughing could be a pathology of a respiratory disorder

Often appears as...
- respiratory pathology
- cardiac pathology
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Technical
noun
It is the study of diseases and the changes they cause in the body.
Rebecca is specializing in pathology in her medical studies

Often appears as...
- pathology department
- pathology reports
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
It is the details and processes of an illness or problem.
Behavioral researchers are studying the pathology of addiction to understand it better

Often appears as...
- behavioral pathology
- social pathology
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
This is a symptom or distinctive characteristic of a disease.
Frequent coughing could be a pathology of a respiratory disorder

Often appears as...
- respiratory pathology
- cardiac pathology
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Medical Focus
Pathology is primarily used within a medical context to discuss disease studies and research.

She published a paper on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.
Specialization Field
In medical studies, pathology is a specialized branch where doctors are trained to analyze disease.

After medical school, he decided to focus on pathology.
Not Pathophysiology
Don't confuse pathology with pathophysiology; the latter focuses on function changes due to diseases.

While pathology examines the disease itself, pathophysiology looks at how it affects body functions.
Medical Focus
Pathology is primarily used within a medical context to discuss disease studies and research.

She published a paper on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.
Specialization Field
In medical studies, pathology is a specialized branch where doctors are trained to analyze disease.

After medical school, he decided to focus on pathology.
Not Pathophysiology
Don't confuse pathology with pathophysiology; the latter focuses on function changes due to diseases.

While pathology examines the disease itself, pathophysiology looks at how it affects body functions.
Medical Focus
Pathology is primarily used within a medical context to discuss disease studies and research.

She published a paper on the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.
Specialization Field
In medical studies, pathology is a specialized branch where doctors are trained to analyze disease.

After medical school, he decided to focus on pathology.
Not Pathophysiology
Don't confuse pathology with pathophysiology; the latter focuses on function changes due to diseases.

While pathology examines the disease itself, pathophysiology looks at how it affects body functions.
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What You Can Do to...
But you might not be. There's one more thing you can do to protect yourself from experiencing the symptoms of Alzheimer's, even if you have the full-blown disease pathology ablaze in your brain. It has to do with neural plasticity and cognitive reserve. Remember, the experience of having Alzheimer's
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The wonderful and...
but they generated new insightful science. In the radiology case, they were new clinical indicators that humans can understand. In this pathology case, the computer system actually discovered that the cells around the cancer are as important as the cancer cells themselves in making a diagnosis.
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A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
to denote these intermediate things that are caused by metabolism and that eventually cause pathology. Because the critical thing about this is that even though the damage only eventually causes pathology, the damage itself is caused ongoing-ly throughout life, starting before we're born.
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What causes seizures,...
Surgeons then use this information to perform targeted surgeries. These various treatments help doctors manage the majority of seizure cases, allowing most people with seizures to live healthy and comfortable lives. But the underlying pathology of many seizures remains elusive.
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How Your Memory Works --...
It's interacting with what you do and experience and feel, and it changes. And the more we learn, the more connections we build. And this is important because if you do start to experience some pathology, that is sort of, pre-Alzheimer's,
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Advocating for gender...
assumption of male entitlement when it's far more appropriately belongs to my co-director it's a sickness it's a male pathology it has to be broken it curtails the world for women I say to all of you that while un women as it's
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What we'll learn about...
rather than defining the diseases on the basis of their symptoms, as we had at the beginning of the century, we started to define them on the basis of the actual pathology that we observed at the neural level.
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How a Woman's Donated...
area in the center for human simulation and she said I want to be part of this very emphatically and told me about her diseases and her history and I said well you're a walking pathology specimen not
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The opportunity of...
We are effectively grading someone's worth to our community. So we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. And, most importantly, there's a partnership
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Jane Fonda: Life's third...
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the metaphor, the old metaphor. You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Age as pathology.
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What You Can Do to...
But you might not be. There's one more thing you can do to protect yourself from experiencing the symptoms of Alzheimer's, even if you have the full-blown disease pathology ablaze in your brain. It has to do with neural plasticity and cognitive reserve. Remember, the experience of having Alzheimer's
Video examples
The wonderful and...
but they generated new insightful science. In the radiology case, they were new clinical indicators that humans can understand. In this pathology case, the computer system actually discovered that the cells around the cancer are as important as the cancer cells themselves in making a diagnosis.
Video examples
A roadmap to end aging PIPE...
to denote these intermediate things that are caused by metabolism and that eventually cause pathology. Because the critical thing about this is that even though the damage only eventually causes pathology, the damage itself is caused ongoing-ly throughout life, starting before we're born.
Video examples
What causes seizures,...
Surgeons then use this information to perform targeted surgeries. These various treatments help doctors manage the majority of seizure cases, allowing most people with seizures to live healthy and comfortable lives. But the underlying pathology of many seizures remains elusive.
Video examples
How Your Memory Works --...
It's interacting with what you do and experience and feel, and it changes. And the more we learn, the more connections we build. And this is important because if you do start to experience some pathology, that is sort of, pre-Alzheimer's,
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
assumption of male entitlement when it's far more appropriately belongs to my co-director it's a sickness it's a male pathology it has to be broken it curtails the world for women I say to all of you that while un women as it's
Video examples
What we'll learn about...
rather than defining the diseases on the basis of their symptoms, as we had at the beginning of the century, we started to define them on the basis of the actual pathology that we observed at the neural level.
Video examples
How a Woman's Donated...
area in the center for human simulation and she said I want to be part of this very emphatically and told me about her diseases and her history and I said well you're a walking pathology specimen not
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The opportunity of...
We are effectively grading someone's worth to our community. So we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. And, most importantly, there's a partnership
Video examples
Jane Fonda: Life's third...
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the metaphor, the old metaphor. You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Age as pathology.
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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

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Alexander McCall Smith
Scottish Writer
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

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Amanda Gorman
American Poet
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.

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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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Mandy Rose
American Wrestler
I was studying speech-language pathology at Iona College and I got my bachelor's degree there.

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Robert Farrar Capon
American Clergyman
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

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Scott Stossel
American Journalist
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

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Alexander McCall Smith
Scottish Writer
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

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Howard Rheingold
American Critic
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.

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Amanda Gorman
American Poet
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.

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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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Mandy Rose
American Wrestler
I was studying speech-language pathology at Iona College and I got my bachelor's degree there.

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Robert Farrar Capon
American Clergyman
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

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Emil Cioran
Romanian Philosopher
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

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