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PALAEOPATHOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does palaeopathology mean?
• PALAEOPATHOLOGY (noun)
The noun PALAEOPATHOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence)
Familiarity information: PALAEOPATHOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
palaeopathology; paleopathology
Hypernyms ("palaeopathology" is a kind of...):
pathology (the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases)
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
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