Histopathology vs. Pathology — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Histopathology and Pathology
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Histopathology
Histopathology (compound of three Greek words: ἱστός histos "tissue", πάθος pathos "suffering", and -λογία -logia "study of") refers to the microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease. Specifically, in clinical medicine, histopathology refers to the examination of a biopsy or surgical specimen by a pathologist, after the specimen has been processed and histological sections have been placed onto glass slides.
Pathology
Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word pathology also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices.
Histopathology
The study of changes in tissues caused by disease.
Pathology
The science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes
Research people skilled in experimental pathology
Histopathology
The study of the microscopic anatomical changes in diseased tissue.
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Pathology
The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology.
Histopathology
(biology) The microscopic study of tissue, especially of abnormal tissue as a result of disease.
Pathology
The anatomic or functional manifestations of a disease
The pathology of cancer.
Pathology
A departure or deviation from a normal condition
"Neighborhoods plagued by a self-perpetuating pathology of joblessness, welfare dependency, crime" (Time).
Pathology
The study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences; now usually and especially in the clinical and academic medicine subsenses defined below.
Pathology
The clinical biomedical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services to clinicians (e.g., cytology, histology, cytopathology, histopathology, cytometry).
The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
Pathology
The academic biomedical specialty that advances the aspects of the biomedical sciences that allow for those clinical applications and their advancements over time.
Those three pioneering pathologists went on to become leaders in building the pathology departments at several universities.
Pathology
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 plant pathology and vertebrate pathology programs of the university's biology department
Pathology
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
Some sort of renal pathology was suspected, but imaging and even biopsy found no discernible pathology, glomerular or otherwise.
Some sort of mental and social pathology seemed to sweep over the discourse later that autumn.
Pathology
The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Pathology
The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
Pathology
The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
Pathology
Any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
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