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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 (from the Ancient Greek roots of pathos (ÏÎ¬Î¸Î¿Ï), meaning experience or suffering, and-logia (-Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î±), an account of) is a significant component of the causal study of disease and a major field in modern medicine and diagnosis.s a field of general inquiry and research, pathology addresses four components of disease: cause/ etiology, mechanisms of development (pathogenesis), structural alterations of cells (morphologic changes), and the consequences of changes (clinical manifestations).