Definition of "neuropathology" []

• The scientific study of diseases of the nervous system. (noun)

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• "Diagnostic neuropathology is based on the same principles used for the preparation and evaluation of tissue specimens used in Anatomic Pathology."
• "I learned neuropathology from the head of the department, R.M. Barlow, and from Hugh Fraser who was doing seminal studies with Alan Dickinson defining the genetics of the scrapie mouse model."
• "Our clinical mission is to provide the very highest level of diagnostic expertise and care available in neuropathology to patients and families treated at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia."