General Veterinary Pathology

BRANCHES OF PATHOLOGY

• General pathology deals with fundamental processes that are common to more than one tissue or organ
• Systemic pathology is study of diseases peculiar to certain systems or organs
• Special pathology is study of diseases caused by specific microbial pathogens
• Clinical pathology is that branch of pathology used in the diagnosis of the diseases in the hospital at the patient’s bedside. Pathology applied to find the solution to clinical problems especially the use of laboratory methods in clinical diagnosis.
• Comparative pathology is the study of diseases of animals and comparing them to those occurring in man.
• Nutritional pathology is the study of disease processes resulting from deficiency or excess of essential foods
• Experimental pathology means the study of disease artificially produced in animals
• Chemical pathology deals with alterations in biochemical processes in diseases
• Toxicopathology means the study of diseases caused by toxic substances
• Oncology (Gk. Onco-Tumour) is study of tumours.
• The purpose of study of pathology is to diagnose, treat, control and prevent the diseases from the knowledge gained through the cause, pathogenesis and effects. These are achieved through examination of tissues from living animals (Biopsy) and dead animals/carcass (Necropsy) or by experimentation.
  Thus pathology deals with disease processes involving aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical effects of diseases in animals and tries to explain what went wrong. It is linking the basic knowledge gained in anatomy, histology, physiology and biochemistry and clinical subjects in making diagnosis of diseases and helps in treatment, prevention and control of diseases.