pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.
The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
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).