Both Uses of
pathology
in
Catch-22
- There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.†
Chpt 1pathologist = a doctor who specializes in the study of disease by studying cells and tissues under a microscope
- He would remember them forever, for they were all part and parcel of the most extraordinary event that had ever befallen him, an event perhaps marvelous, perhaps pathological — the vision of the naked man in the tree.†
Chpt 25 *pathological = caused by disease; or related to disease
Definition:
the study of disease by studying cells and tissues under a microscope; or a disease