ABSTRACT
Pathology is the study of disease. It is central to the whole practice of evidence-based medicine. Arguably, anyone who studies the mechanisms of a disease can be described as a pathologist, but traditionally the term is restricted to those who have a day-to-day involvement in providing a diagnostic service to a hospital or undertake research in a pathology department. Within the discipline there are numerous subspecialities:
● Cellular pathology, including histopathology (the study of tissues) and cytopathology (the branch in which diagnoses are made from the study of separated cells).
