(Greek: open market or meeting place) Large, open public space which served as a place for assembly for the citizens of a Greek city; the political, civic, religious and commercial center of a Greek city; buildings for all of these various purposes were constructed as needed in and around the agora.
pathology. 1. the branch of medicine treating of the essential nature of disease, especially of the changes in body tissues and organs that cause or are caused by disease. 2. the structural and functional manifestations of a disease. adj., adj pathologÂ´ic, pathologÂ´ical.
thoracic medicine, the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the structures and organs of the chest, especially the lungs.1  Facebook.t Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: Before special targeted therapies patient survival was less than two to three years from diagnosis, but happily new treatments have been developed over the last 10 years such that prognosis is much improved for the majority of patients.