The department of pathology University College Cork is located at Cork University Hospital, a large teaching hospital in the south of Ireland.

What is Pathology?

Pathology is the scientific study of disease.

The subject constitutes a large body of scientific knowlege and ideas and it encompasses a wide range of investigative methods which are essential for the understanding and practice of modern medicine.

Pathology includes the following subdivisions:

Histopathology	Diagnosis of disease in tissues
Cytopathology	Diagnosis of disease in isolated cells
Haematology	Disorders of blood
Microbiology	Infectious diseases and organisms responsible
Immunology	Specific defence mechanisms of the body
Chemical pathology	Chemical changes in tissues and fluids
Toxicology	The effects of known or suspected poisons
Forensic pathology	Pathology application to legal purposes and investigation of sudden and unexplained death
Molecular pathology	Molecular study of disease