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| | Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Pathology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) |
 | | Pathology (in ancient Greek pathos = feeling, pain, suffering and logos = discourse or treatise [literally: "words"], i.e., system of formal study) is the study of the processes underlying disease and other forms of illness, harmful abnormality, or dysfunction. |
 | | Within biology, it means specifically the study of the structural and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that underlie disease. |
 | | Speech pathology is a quite separate area mostly involved in helping patients with stroke or speech impediments. |
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