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the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
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Pathology (in ancient Greek language Greek ''pathos'' = feeling, pain, suffering and ''logos'' = discourse or treatise literally: - "words", i.e., system of formal study) is the study of the processes underlying disease and other forms of illness, harmful abnormality, or dysfunction.Within biology, it means specifically the study of the structural and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that underlie disease. It is a form of science and a branch of medicine that involves testing samples in a medical laboratory and diagnosing health problems from their evidence. Pathologists are trained doctors who have specialized in interpreting test results and physical evidence, and are generally required to take further postgraduate exams and mandatory training before they are able to practice independently.The related term pathological is sometimes used by clinicians, or casually, to signify some abberrant process underlying such a dysfunction, thus a "pathological growth", or casually, a "pathological attitude" or a "pathological woman hater".
Biological and life studies use - The four main aspects of a disease that are studied in pathology are: Etiology: what causes the disease Pathogenesis: the mechanism by which a certain etiological factor causes disease MorphologyMorphologic changes: the structural changes induced in the cells, tissues and organs Clinical significance: the functional consequences of the morphologic changesFields of pathology include: Anatomical pathology Chemical pathology Cytopathology (Cellular pathology?) Cytogenetics Experimental Pathology Forensic pathology HaematologyHematology Histology (the study of tissues and the effects of disease upon them) Histopathology (the microscopic study of diseased tissue) Immunology Microbiology Nosology (the science of classifying diseases) Oral and maxillofacial pathology (a specialty of dentistry and pathology) Plant pathology
Related uses - Speech pathology is a quite separate area mostly involved in helping patients with stroke or speech impediments. Psychopathology is also used in mental health, denoting the study of mental illness.Pathological is also used to describe a person's actions in such a way as to credit the action to a disease process or a compulsion:Pathological purchasing or Pathological consumption Pathological narcissismPathological liar
Other uses - Pathological can also be used in data sets in mathematics or statistics to reference an exceptionally (or awkwardly, or inconveniently) atypical example or set of data, often one which does not abide by rules or succumb to treatment that other similar cases usually do:Pathological (mathematics)Pathological scienceComputer science uses this term in a slightly different sense with regard to the study of algorithms. Here, an input (or set of inputs) is said to be pathological if it causes atypical behavior from the algorithm, such as a violation of its average case complexity, or even its correctness. For example, hash tables generally have pathological inputs: sets of keys that collide on hash values. The term is often used pejoratively, as a way of dismissing such inputs as being specially designed to break a routine that is otherwise sound in practice.
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Websites
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The LostStories Channel
Knowledge resource center harmonizing the truths discovered in the pursuit of philosophy, theology, history, science, the arts, and the humanities.
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Sedona Lab Products
Inventor and innovator of definitive Blood Preparation products for the Laboratory and Hospitals. Animal Blood prep products too!
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College of Medicine
Comprehensive source of information about the college.
http://www.med.uiuc.edu/
AFIP - (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology)
A tri-service agency of the Department of Defense with a threefold mission of consultation, education and research. Within the Institute, there are 22 subspecialty departments with more than 120 pathologists. Each year the AFIP offers over 50 pathology education courses.
http://www.afip.org/
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