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Pathology vs Syndrome - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between pathology and syndrome

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 syndrome is .

pathology

English

Noun

(pathologies)
  • (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.
    • The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
  • Pathosis: any deviation from a healthy or normal structure or function; abnormality; illness or malformation.

    • Derived terms

    * pathologist * anatomical pathology * chemical pathology * cytopathology * experimental pathology * forensic pathology * histopathology * plant pathology * psychopathology

    Related terms

    * pathologic * pathological * pathobiology * pathophysiology

    Usage 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).

    syndrome

    English

    (wikipedia syndrome)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}

    Derived terms

    * acquired immune deficiency syndrome * Asperger syndrome * * Bloom syndrome * chronic fatigue syndrome * * China syndrome * Down syndrome * economy class syndrome * empty nest syndrome * false memory syndrome * fetal alcohol syndrome * foreign accent syndrome * Gorlin's syndrome * * kapang syndrome * Kearns-Sayre syndrome * Korsakoff's syndrome * * parental alienation syndrome * Paris syndrome * Parkinson's syndrome * Peter Pan syndrome * Pinkerton Syndrome * polycystic ovary syndrome * premenstrual syndrome * Proteus syndrome * red neck syndrome * red man syndrome * Rett syndrome * Reye's syndrome * severe acute respiratory syndrome * sick building syndrome * small man syndrome * smoking stool syndrome * Stockholm syndrome * sudden infant death syndrome * sundowner syndrome * tall poppy syndrome * toxic shock syndrome * tube feeding syndrome * true believer syndrome * Zollinger-Ellison syndrome