clinicopathology

noun

The study of the signs and symptoms of a disease and also of its pathology, especially with regard to their correlations.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

nounclinicopathology (countable and uncountable, plural clinicopathologies)

plural clinicopathologies

  1. countableuncountablemedicineThe study of the signs and symptoms of a disease and also of its pathology, especially with regard to their correlations.

    Study objectives: To determine the incidence and mortality as well as to analyze the clinical and pathologic changes of aortic dissection.

    2000, Mészáros I, Mórocz J, Szlávi J, Schmidt J, Tornóci L, Nagy L, Szép L, “Epidemiology and clinicopathology of aortic dissection”, in Chest, volume 117, number 5, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1271–1278
  2. countablerareuncountablemedicineclinical pathology.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱley-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱl̥néyti
  4. Proto-Hellenic*klíňňō
  5. Ancient Greekκλῑ́νω (klī́nō)
  6. Ancient Greekκλῑ́νη (klī́nē)
  7. Ancient Greekκλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)
  8. Late Latinclīnicus
  9. Frenchclinique
  10. Englishclinic
  11. Englishclinico-
  12. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  13. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  14. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  16. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  17. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  18. Frenchpathologie
  19. Englishpathology
  20. Englishclinicopathology

From clinico- + pathology.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clinicopathology,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clinicopathology.

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