Pathology vs Germ - What's the difference?
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(medicine) The branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences.
The medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians.
Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.
(biology) The small mass of cells from which a new organism develops; a seed, bud or spore.
A pathogenic microorganism.
The origin of an idea or project.
The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See .
To germinate.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Thomas Hardy
(slang) To grow, as if parasitic.
* "I’m addicted, want to germ inside your love" - Just Can't Get Enough by the Black Eyed Peas
As nouns the difference between pathology and germ
is that pathology is (medicine) the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences while germ is (uk|derogatory) a german person.pathology
English
Noun
(pathologies)- The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
Derived terms
* pathologist * anatomical pathology * chemical pathology * cytopathology * experimental pathology * forensic pathology * histopathology * plant pathology * psychopathologyUsage notes
* Some house style guides for medical publications avoid the "illness" sense of pathology'' (disease, state of ill health) and replace it with ''pathosis''. The rationale is that the ''-ology'' form should be reserved for the "study of disease" sense and for the medical specialty that provides microscopy and other laboratory services (e.g., cytology, histology) to clinicians. This rationale drives similar usage preferences about ''etiology'' ("cause" sense versus "study of causes" sense), ''methodology'' ("methods" sense versus "study of methods" sense), and other ''-ology'' words. Not all such , because most physicians don't do so in their own speech (and the context makes clear the sense intended). Another limitation is that ''pathology'' meaning "illness" has an adjectival form (''pathologic''), but the corresponding adjectival form of ''pathosis'' (''pathotic'') is idiomatically missing from English (defective declension), so ''pathologic'' is obligate for both senses ("diseased" and "related to the study of disease"); this likely helps keep the "illness" sense of ''pathology'' in natural use (as the readily retrieved noun counterpart to ''pathologic in the "diseased" sense).germ
English
Noun
(en noun)- the germ of civil liberty
Derived terms
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(en verb)- O for a withering curse to blast the germing of their wicked machinations.
- Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.