How to Use pathology in a Sentence

pathology

noun
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  • The whole thing is clear evidence of the depth of human pathology.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
  • And that, again, points to how this is about a broader social pathology.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The cost of a self-screen will be the same as the pelvic exam, Andrews said, because the sample is sent to a lab, which charges for their pathology.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
  • My perception of the sound or the wheel pathology had no bearing on what Leonel was going to do.
    — Daniel Barron, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
  • At the Games, suffering isn’t a sign of some pathology but a path to transcendence.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Post from a doctor who worked on coronaviruses as a prof of pathology at UC San Diego in the 70s….
    — cleveland, 7 Mar. 2020
  • But what if your brain already has signs of beta amyloid or tau — two of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s and other brain pathologies?
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In fact, the occasional bout of success is a key symptom of the pathology.
    — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2021
  • No trace of the tumor was found in pathology testing of the tissue that had been removed, Zimmer’s suit says.
    — oregonlive, 16 Feb. 2020
  • A few days before the start of the school year, positions in speech language pathology and math were still unfilled.
    — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Her work was then co-opted and published as proof of pathology under the name George W. Henry.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • To prepare the cell sample for the pathology lab, your provider will either spread the sample onto a slide or preserve it in a liquid.
    — Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 27 June 2023
  • Blumenthal has seen patterns of pathology emerge over the course of the pandemic.
    — 1843, 26 June 2020
  • The pathology center had just a handful of working scanners.
    — James Bandler, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The moral stakes are clear, said Dr. Weldon Sanford, the current chief of pathology at the hospital, and require action.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • But the weight of a growing baby and the cultural baggage of Black pathology was getting heavier.
    — Ruha Benjamin, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The week after, Meredith and I met with one of the surgeons to go over the pathology report analyzing my breast tissue.
    — Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Of note, the participants had to have the presence of amyloid beta pathology.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There are three salmon hatcheries in the region where students will help with egg takes and learn about fish pathology and rearing prior to the tiny salmon heading out to sea.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Your pathology isn’t that interesting to the project, Spitzer told Potter.
    — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The study, whose authors included Dr. Carter, touched on the very essence of the simmering debate over forensic pathology.
    — New York Times, 20 June 2022
  • That means analysts must also be clear-eyed about the very real problems and pathologies foreign policy faced in the past.
    — Elizabeth N. Saunders, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The pathology of the age is too much experience, too little savor.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Many believe the pathology lies within teen-agers themselves.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • And are partly arising from changes intrinsic to the pathology in the nerve cells, so that the pattern of genes expressed by that nerve cell are altered in a variety of ways.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • Werner Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days of modern forensic pathology, and his textbook on the topic remains a gold standard in the field.
    — Trip Gabriel, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
  • The group agreed that Bodenchuk and Evans couldn’t claim to be experts in human pathology but that the tear in Whiteley’s neck probably was not from a mountain lion.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • What Ramos did — stemming from a pathology found almost nowhere else on Earth — is as American as apple pie.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Traumatic stress is most often what tips these traits and tendencies into pathologies or disabilities.
    — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

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