pathoanatomy
nounEtymology From patho- + anatomy.
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The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
- His work laid the foundations for nineteenth-century pathoanatomy, and helps explain why, within a few decades, Cullen and his colleagues had gone the way of Galen.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:
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The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.
- Hypernyms
- pathobiology, pathology, histopathology
- Coordinate terms
- pathophysiology