contagion vs pathology

contagion

noun
  • The spread or transmission of such a disease. 

  • The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy. 

  • The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household. 

  • A recession or crisis developed in such manner. 

  • A disease spread by contact. 

pathology

noun
  • Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation. 

  • The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time. 

  • Any of several interrelated scientific disciplines that advance the aspects of the life sciences that allow for such technological applications and their advancements over time. 

  • The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry). 

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