morbidity vs pathology

morbidity

noun
  • An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness. 

  • The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause. 

  • The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom. 

  • Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery. 

  • The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. 

  • The sickness rate of a population. 

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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