pathoanatomy

Definitions

1. The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
   uncountable
2. The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.
   uncountable

Examples

“His work⟳ laid the foundations for nineteenth-century pathoanatomy, and helps explain⟳ why, within a few decades, Cullen and his colleagues had gone the way of Galen.”

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