pathology vs rot

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). 

rot

noun
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs. 

  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction. 

  • Verbal nonsense. 

  • Decaying matter. 

verb
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret. 

  • To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place). 

  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. 

  • To decline in function or utility. 

  • To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. 

  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes. 

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