pathobiology

English

Etymology

From patho- +‎ biology.

Noun

pathobiology (usually uncountable, plural pathobiologies)

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

Hyponyms

• pathoanatomy
• pathophysiology

Translations

branch of biology that deals with pathology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 病理学 (zh) (bìnglǐxué)

• Finnish: patobiologia
• French: pathobiologie
• Romanian: patobiologie

See also

• etiology

Anagrams

• biopathology