Pa-thŏl'o-gy, n.

n. [Fr. pathologie, Sp. & It. patologie, from Gr. πάθος, a suffering, and λόγος, speech, discourse.] (Med.) The science which has for its object the knowledge of disease.

Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease in general or of particular diseases. Its departments are nosology, etiology, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, symptoms, and cure of diseases.

Cellular pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased functions of the body. Virchow.