Path/o conveys which meaning?

• A. Disease
• B. Cell
• C. Tissue
• D. Organ

Answer: (A)

Path/o denotes disease or suffering. In medical terms this combining form signals a relationship to disease processes. You’ll see it in words like pathology (the study of disease), pathologist (a clinician who analyzes tissues to diagnose disease), pathogenic (capable of causing disease), and pathophysiology (how disease changes normal body function). It’s not about a cell, tissue, or organ—that would be shown with roots like cyt/o (cell), hist/o (tissue), or viscer/o/organ/o (organ). So the meaning conveyed here is disease.