pathoanatomy

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noun

The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.

OriginEnglish anatomy ← Middle English anatomie ← Old French anatomie →
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Meanings

nounpathoanatomy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.

    His work laid the foundations for nineteenth-century pathoanatomy, and helps explain why, within a few decades, Cullen and his colleagues had gone the way of Galen.

    1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257
  2. uncountableThe anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.

Synonyms & antonyms

Broader
pathobiologypathologyhistopathology

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekπάσχω (páskhō)
  2. Ancient Greekπᾰ́θος (pắthos)
  3. Englishpatho-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂en-
  5. Proto-Hellenic*aná
  6. Ancient Greekᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
  7. Ancient Greekἀνα- (ana-)
  8. Proto-Indo-European*temh₁-
  9. Ancient Greekτέμνω (témnō)
  10. Ancient Greekἀνατέμνω (anatémnō)
  11. Ancient Greekἀνατομή (anatomḗ)
  12. Latinanatomia
  13. Old Frenchanatomie
  14. Middle Englishanatomie
  15. Englishanatomy
  16. Englishpathoanatomy

From patho- + anatomy.

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APA

pathoanatomy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pathoanatomy

MLA

“pathoanatomy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pathoanatomy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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