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Pathology (disambiguation) — Pathology is a medical field specializing in the categorization of diseases. Pathology can also refer to: In science *Anatomic pathology, the study of macro and microscopic abnormalities in tissues *Speech pathology, the area of rehabilitative… … Wikipedia
Pathology as a medical specialty — spinout/title|pathology as a medical specialty|Pathologists are physicians who diagnose and characterize disease in living patients by examining biopsies or bodily fluid. The vast majority of cancer diagnoses are made or confirmed by a… … Wikipedia
Pathology — The study of disease. Pathology has been defined as “that branch of medicine which treats of the essential nature of disease.” The word “pathology” comes from the Greek words “pathos” meaning “disease” and “logos” meaning “a treatise” = a… … Medical dictionary
Anatomical pathology — Histopathology: microscopic appearance of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast. The slide is stained with Haematoxylin Eosin … Wikipedia
Veterinary pathology — spinout/title|Veterinary pathology|Veterinary pathologists are doctors of veterinary medicine who specialise in the diagnosis of diseases through the examination of animal tissue and body fluids. Like for medical spinout/link|pathology,… … Wikipedia
Forensic pathology — is a branch of Pathology concerned with determining the cause of death by examination of a cadaver. The autopsy is performed by the pathologist at the request of a coroner or a medical examiner, usually during the investigation of criminal law… … Wikipedia
Clinical pathology — Hematology: Blood smears on a glass slide, stained and ready to be examined under the microscope … Wikipedia
Gastrointestinal pathology — is the subspecialty of surgical pathology which deals with the diagnosis and characterization of neoplastic and non neoplastic diseases of the digestive tract and accessory organs, such as the pancreas and liver.Sub specialty recognition and… … Wikipedia
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology — The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) is a US government institution concerned with diagnostic consultation, education, and research. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum and is located in Washington, DC on the grounds of… … Wikipedia
Molecular pathology — is an emerging discipline within pathology which is focused in the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of molecules within organs, tissues or bodily fluids. Molecular pathology shares some aspects of practice with both anatomic … Wikipedia
