pathoanatomy

English

Etymology

From patho- +‎ anatomy.

Noun

pathoanatomy (uncountable)

1. The study of the causes of disease based on the examination of organs and tissues.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:

     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.

2. The anatomic mechanism of the pathogenesis of a disease or any particular case thereof.

Hypernyms

• pathobiology
• pathology
• histopathology

Coordinate terms

• pathophysiology