pathology

(clinical medicine) The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).

(academic medicine) The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.

(biology, life sciences) Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time.

Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

(medicine, historical) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine senses defined hereinbefore.