The General Pathology Course introduces the student to the pathological phenomena knowledge that develop in the human body. At the end of the course the student must has acquired what are the etiological factors and the molecular-biochemical mechanisms that underlie pathological processes, that govern the reaction to tissue damage and repair; the biological defenses implemented in response to pathogens; the morphological alterations and functional consequences that these cause in cells and tissues; the nature of the neoplastic disease and the biological features of the neoplastic transformation; knowledge of the physiopathological mechanisms responsible for the transition from a homeostatic to a pathological condition, the way in which various functional and/or structural alterations of organ and apparatus interact with each other, causing symptoms connected to each other and identifiable under a common etiopathogenesis