palaeopathologicalpaleopathologicaladj.
/ˌpalɪəʊˌpaθəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˌpaθəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˌpæθəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Medicine and Archaeology.
Of or relating to palaeopathology.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [adjective] > types of
toxicological1839
physiopathological1847
neuropathological1854
histopathological1855
psychopathological1884
clinicopathological1898
palaeopathologic1917
palaeopathological1917
pathophysiological1932
neuropathologic1937
physiopathologic1938
pathophysiologic1947
immunopathological1959
immunopathologic1960
1917 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 28 261/1 Another American investigator, Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, has developed intensively the palæopathological side in his numerous explorations and studies of the aborigines on this continent.
1975 Palestine Explor. Q. 107 88 To rule out the possibility that they were the disease now known as leprosy..; an opinion supported by the paleopathological evidence given below.
1991 Antiquity 65 902/2 Increased population density during the late Mesolithic in the estuarine/riverine habitats of southwest Portugal is evidenced..by palaeopathological evidence of social stress.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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