| 释义 |
pa·thol·o·gy
\-jē, -ji\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: New Latin pathologia & Middle French pathologie, from Greek pathologia study of the passions, from patho- path- + -logia -logy
1. : the study of abnormality; especially : the study of diseases, their essential nature, causes, and development, and the structural and functional changes produced by them
2. : something abnormal:
a.
(1) : the anatomic and physiologic deviations from the normal in the tissues of animals and plants that are manifested as disease
< the study of human pathology >
(2) : the complex of signs, symptoms, and bodily changes that characterize a particular disease
< the pathology of pneumonia >
b. : comparable abnormality of nonliving material
< the pathology of steel >
< pathology of wine >
c. : deviation from propriety or from an assumed normal state of nonmaterial things
< the pathology of reaction >
< social pathology >
3. : a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities
< a new pathology of the eye > |