pathoanatomy

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English

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Etymology

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From patho- +‎ anatomy.

Noun

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pathoanatomy (uncountable)

  1. The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:
      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.

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