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ˌpalæopaˈthology
Also (chiefly U.S.) paleo-.
[f. palæo-, paleo- + pathology.]
(The study of) the pathological conditions found in ancient human and animal remains.
1893R. W. Shufeldt in Pop. Sci. Monthly XLII. 679 Palæopathology..is a term here proposed under which may be described all diseased or pathological conditions found fossilized in the remains of extinct or fossil animals. 1923R. L. Moodie Antiquity of Disease iv. 66 Virchow, Mayer, Esper, Schmerling, and the other founders of paleopathology did their initial observations on the diseased bones of cave bears of Europe. 1952Bull. Hist. Med. XXVI. 538 (heading) Evidence on the paleopathology of yaws. 1967Science 11 Aug. 638/3 Since not only skeletal material but disease itself is the subject matter of paleopathology, many disciplines find a meeting ground in these studies. 1975Palestine Exploration Q. CVII. 89 Excavated the cemeteries of four medieval leper hospitals in Denmark... Palaeopathology was, in this instance, able to contribute to clinical medicine.
Hence ˌpalæopathoˈlogic, -ˈlogical adjs.; ˌpalæopaˈthologist, one who investigates or studies palæopathology.
1917Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. XXVIII. 261/1 Another American investigator, Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, has developed intensively the palæopathological side in his numerous explorations and studies of the aborigines on this continent. Ibid., A very remarkable exhibition of palæopathologic specimens in San Diego. 1939Brit. Jrnl. Tuberculosis XXXIII. 148 Egypt has provided the anatomist and the anthropologist, no less than the archæologist and the palæopathologist, with unrivalled opportunities and an unprecedented wealth of material for the prosecution of their respective researches. 1966O. Temkin in S. Jarcho Human Palaeopath. 34 Material from Ancient Egypt looms very large in the discussions of palaeopathologists. 1966W. G. J. Putschar in Ibid. 60 In palaeopathological material we have only the mineralized portion of the affected bone available. 1967Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenology XCIX. 712 The Mochica-Chinú civilizations developed in the coastal deserts of northern Perú and the dry desiccating sands of these areas have preserved large quantities of their skeletal remains in a remarkably good state for paleopathologic study. 1975Palestine Exploration Q. CVII. 88 To rule out the possibility that they were the disease now known as leprosy..; an opinion supported by the paleopathological evidence given below. |