English-Thai Dictionary
pathology
N พยาธิวิทยา (ทางการแพทย์ parasitology pa-yad-wid-ta-ya
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PATHOLOGY
n.[Gr. passion, suffering, and discourse. ] That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms; or the doctrine of the causes and nature of diseases, comprehending nosology, etiology, symptomatology, and therapeutics.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PATHOLOGY
Pa *thol "o *gy, n.; pl. Pathologies. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F.pathologie. ] (Med. )
Defn: The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, ætiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases. Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body. Virchow.
New American Oxford Dictionary
pathology
pa thol o gy |pəˈTHäləjē pəˈθɑləʤi | ▶noun the science of the causes and effects of diseases, esp. the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes. • Medicine pathological features considered collectively; the typical behavior of a disease: the pathology of Huntington's disease. • Medicine a pathological condition: the dominant pathology is multiple sclerosis. • mental, social, or linguistic abnormality or malfunction: the city's inability to cope with the pathology of a burgeoning underclass. DERIVATIVES pa thol o gist |-jist |noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from modern or medieval Latin pathologia (see patho-, -logy ).
Oxford Dictionary
pathology
path |ology |pəˈθɒlədʒi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes: research people skilled in experimental pathology. • Medicine pathological features considered collectively; the typical behaviour of a disease: the pathology of Huntington's disease. • Medicine a pathological condition: the dominant pathology is multiple sclerosis. • [ usu. with modifier ] mental, social, or linguistic abnormality or malfunction: the city's inability to cope with the pathology of a burgeoning underclass. DERIVATIVES pathologist noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from modern or medieval Latin pathologia (see patho-, -logy ).
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
pathology
pa thol o gy /pəθɑ́lədʒi |-θɔ́l -/名詞 U 〘医 〙病理学 .
The Wordsmith Dictionary