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Pathology

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Definition: A specialty concerned with the nature and cause of disease as expressed by changes in cellular or tissue structure and function caused by the disease process.  SPEC only: SPEC qualif; prefer /pathol with organs & diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.52; definition of /pathol applicable to PATHOLOGY: Manual 21.22+, 23.15; "postmortem pathol": consider AUTOPSY or CADAVER or merely /pathol; DF: PATHOL   
Examples Forensic Pathology; Pathology, Clinical; Pathology, Molecular; Pathology, Surgical; Telepathology 		Other names Pathologies

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