Pathoanatomy
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues. uncountable
"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."
- 2 The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof. uncountable
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From patho- + anatomy.
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