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pathophysiology. noun. 1  The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury. 2  The scientific study of such changes. 3  In both senses also called physiopathology.
Pathology: The study of disease. Pathology has been defined as that branch of medicine which treats of the essential nature of disease.. The word pathology comes from the Greek words pathos meaning disease and logos meaning a treatise = a treatise of disease. The word pathology is sometimes misused to mean disease as, for example, he didn't find any pathology (meaning he found no evidence of disease).