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palaeopathology
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palaeopathology [ˌpælɪəʊpəˈθɒlədʒɪ]
n
(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) (Medicine) the study of diseases of ancient man and fossil animals
palaeopathological  adj
palaeopathologist  n
paleopathology, palaeopathology
Medicine. the study of diseases from former times as found in fossils and mummified remains.
See also: Past
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Noun1.palaeopathology - the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence)
paleopathology
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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But when he showed the fossil to paleopathologist Michael Schultz of the Georg-August University in Gottingen, Germany, Schultz recognized the pattern.
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95 Mann and Hunt assist the beginning skeletal paleopathologist in recognizing common conditions in dry-bone specimens, giving a brief history of paleopathology and a description of its methods, describing the fundamentals of bone formation and remodeling, and then examining diseases of individual bones through text, drawings and photographs, giving several new cases in this edition.
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Edward McCarthy, a paleopathologist at Johns Hopkins.
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