different between biological vs pathobiology

English

Etymology

biology +? -ical

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba??(?)?l?d??k?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba???l?d??k?l/

Adjective

biological (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to biology.
2. Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
3. (proscribed, an error in non-native speakers' English) Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
   • 2013, J. Hemmelskamp, K. Rennings, and F. Leone (eds.), Innovation-Oriented Environmental Regulation: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analysis, p. 49:

     The market for cosmetics with natural ingredients in which the body shop is so successful is still a small one, as is the market for biological food products (1 per cent in the Netherlands).

Noun

biological (plural biologicals)

1. (rare) A biological product.
   • 1917, Lilly, Eli & Company, Indianapolis, A.B.C. Course on Biologicals, page 5

     This elementary treatise on biologicals was designed primarily for the instruction of Lilly salesmen to enable them to handle the biological line intelligently.

Synonyms

• biologic

Translations

See also

• adoptive
• biological clock
• biological father
• biological mother
• birth mother

English

Etymology

patho- +? biology

Noun

pathobiology (usually uncountable, plural pathobiologies)

1. (biology) The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
2. (medicine) pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
3. (medicine) The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.

Hyponyms

• pathoanatomy
• pathophysiology

See also

• etiology

Translations

Anagrams

• biopathology