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Pathology: the clinical description of human disease

Pathology is that field of science and medicine concerned with the study of diseases, specifically their initial causes (etiologies), their step-wise progressions (pathogenesis), and their effects on normal structure and function. This chapter will consider the history of relevant discoveries and te...

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Autor principal: Funkhouser, William K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7380242/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813257-9.00011-5
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Sumario:Pathology is that field of science and medicine concerned with the study of diseases, specifically their initial causes (etiologies), their step-wise progressions (pathogenesis), and their effects on normal structure and function. This chapter will consider the history of relevant discoveries and technologies that have led to our current understanding of diseases, as well as the Pathologist’s current role in the diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of response of human diseases.