Partie de la médecine qui traite de la nature, des causes et des symptômes des maladies.
Pathology
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.