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General Pathology: this is going to be covered in this course. It deals with disease processes in general & there will be a description of the molecular, morphological, ultrastructural, cellular & tissue reactions to different injurious agents and environmental stress.
Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. It addresses components of disease: causes, mechanisms of development (pathogenesis), structural alterations of cells (morphologic changes), and the consequences of changes (clinical manifestations). It deals with incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices, so when used in the context of modern medical treatment, the term is often used in a more narrow fashion to refer to processes and tests which fall within the contemporary medical field of "general pathology,” an area which includes a number of distinct but inter-related medical specialties that diagnose disease, mostly through analysis of tissue, cell, and body fluid samples. Pathology may also refer to the predicted or actual progression of particular diseases (as in the statement "the many different forms of cancer have diverse pathologies “in addition to genetic study related to cancer, staging, grading, outcome, survival, and prognosis and the great impact of those values and factors on the modality of treatment and therapy that should be administered to the patient. In common medical practice, general pathology is mostly concerned with analyzing known clinical abnormalities that are markers or precursors for both infectious and non-infectious disease and is conducted by experts in one of two major specialties, anatomical pathology and clinical pathology. In General pathology, we try to focus on the following topics and chapters, and we are concerned with the most important aspect of pathology that should be covered and memorized by our students in second-year medical college. |