n, pl  -gies  1  :  the study of the essential nature of diseases and esp. of the structural and functional changes produced by them  2  :  the anatomic and physiological deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease  3  :  a treatise on or compilation of abnormalities <a new of the eye>  .
 
 
 
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