clinical pathology (redirected from Biopathologist)

pathology /pa·thol·o·gy/ (pah-thol´ah-je)

1. the branch of medicine dealing with the essential nature of disease, especially changes in body tissues and organs that cause or are caused by disease.

2. the structural and functional manifestations of disease.

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anatomic pathology  the anatomical study of changes in the function, structure, or appearance of organs or tissues, including postmortem examinations and the study of biopsy specimens.

cellular pathology  cytopathology.

clinical pathology  pathology applied to the solution of clinical problems, especially the use of laboratory methods in clinical diagnosis.

comparative pathology  that which considers human disease processes in comparison with those of other animals.

oral pathology  that treating of conditions causing or resulting from morbid anatomic or functional changes in the structures of the mouth.

surgical pathology  the pathology of disease processes that are surgically accessible for diagnosis or treatment.

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clinical pathology

n.

1. The practice of pathology as it pertains to the care of patients.

2. The subspecialty in pathology concerned with the theoretical and technical aspects of laboratory technology that pertain to the diagnosis and prevention of disease.

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clinical pathology,

the laboratory study of disease by a pathologist using techniques appropriate to the specimen being studied. Among the many branches of clinical pathology are hematology, bacteriology, chemistry, and serology.

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clinical

1. pertaining to a clinic or to the bedside and therefore carried out on the living animal.

2. pertaining to or founded on actual observation and treatment of patients, as distinguished from theoretical or experimental.

3. productive of clinical signs; thus clinical disease as distinct from subclinical.

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clinical data storage

storage of clinical data about patients; may be paper or computerized.

clinical decision analysis

the application of clinical, epidemiological and other data to influence outome probability and alternative decisions in such areas as surgery and pharmaceutical treatment.

clinical epidemiologist

an epidemiologist who sees patients and herds in a clinical capacity but with an epidemiological viewpoint. An investigator of clinical problems affecting populations.

clinical epidemiology

the application by a veterinarian who provides direct patient care of epidemiological methods to the study of diagnosis and therapeutics in order to promote efficiency in clinical care.

clinical examination

an examination of a patient including taking the history, physical examination by palpation, auscultation and percussion, clinicopathological examination and examination of the environment.

clinical judgment

exerted while the patient is still alive; the critical decisions made on the basis of scientific observations but with the added skill provided by long experience of similar cases. To this must be added an innate ability to make balanced judgments based not only on the state of the animal and its predictable future but also on some consideration for the patient's overall well-being and the client's financial status and degree of psychological, or in some cases actual, dependence on the patient.

clinical nomenclature

a catalog of the names given to diseases and problems of animals; usually alphabetical, may be numerical. Should contain keywords (including key diagnoses and key signs) and synonyms with each list related to the other. Because of the need to sort banks of clinical data into categories it is essential that recording be accurate and that the catalog be limited—a policy of limited vocabulary.

clinical pathologist

a veterinarian skilled in clinical pathology.

clinical pathology

the examination of diseased tissues, fluids or other materials from a living patient, using all of the techniques available including chemistry, hematology, enzymology, cytology, microbiology, parasitology, protozoology, immunology and histopathology.

clinical pharmacology

the study of the actions and metabolism of drugs in living animals.

clinical policies

professional rules of thumb which are used to decide on the management of a case when there are no research results on which to base decisions. They are policies originated by the senior members of the profession, especially those in academic posts.

clinical propedeutics

preliminary training in the clinical sciences; the introduction to veterinary medicine, surgery and animal reproduction.

clinical qualifiers

adjectives used to qualify diagnoses using terms from within a group of standard variables, e.g. chronic or acute, ovine or bovine, benign or malignant, clinical or latent.

clinical record

the record, made at the time, of clinical examinations, treatments and advice given, complete with dates, names of individuals concerned and drugs or tests used. The record is desirable for the purpose of evaluating the patient's progress, and essential from the legal point of view if arguments should arise about competence or justness of charges made.

clinical signs

the abnormalities of structure or function observed in the patient by the veterinarian or the client. These are customarily graded according to severity, e.g. severe, moderate, mild, and according to speed of onset and progress, e.g. peracute, acute, subacute, chronic, intermittent.

clinical trials

a planned experiment, conducted in the field, designed to test the efficacy of a treatment in herds of animals by comparing the outcome under the test treatment with that observed in a comparable group of animal herds receiving a control treatment.

clinical vocabulary

a catalog of terms approved for use in the description of clinical signs and problems, and for the definition of diagnoses and diseases.

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pathology

1. the branch of veterinary science treating of the essential nature of disease, especially of the changes in body tissues and organs which cause or are caused by disease.

2. the structural and functional manifestations of a disease.

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clinical pathology

see clinical pathology.

comparative pathology

that which considers human disease processes in comparison with those of the lower animals.

experimental pathology

the study of artificially induced pathological processes.

oral pathology

that which treats of conditions causing or resulting from morbid anatomical or functional changes in the structures of the mouth.

surgical pathology

the pathology of disease processes that are surgically accessible for diagnosis or treatment.

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clinical pathology

The field of pathology dedicated to measuring and/or identifying substances, cells, or microorganisms in body fluids Areas Clinical microbiology–bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, virology; immunology; chemistry; hematology; immunohematology–blood banking. Cf Anatomic pathology, Surgical pathology.