Pathology



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 病理学
• ［英］ n. 病理学 ( the study of the essential nature of diseases)
• ［类］ 反义词: normal ( 正常的) -pathological ( 病态的)
• ［记］ path ( 病) ＋ology ( 学科) -> 病理学
• ［同］ 派生词: pathological ( 病理的, 病态的)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -gies)

• Etymology: New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the emotions, from path- + -logia -logy
• Date: 1611
• 1. the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them
• 2. something abnormal:
  • a. the structural and functional deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease
  • b. deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of something nonliving or nonmaterial
  • c. deviation giving rise to social ills <connections between these pathologies…and crime — Wendy Kaminer>

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