ETYM Greek pathos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. French pathologie.
1. Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition.
2. The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases.
3. Study of disease; condition due to disease.
4. Medical specialty concerned with the study of disease processes and how these provoke structural and functional changes in the body.
Partie de la médecine qui traite de la nature, des causes et des symptômes des maladies.