adhesion vs pathology

adhesion and pathology both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
adhesion	Yes	No	No	No
pathology	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pathology is a hypernym of adhesion; that is, pathology is a word with a broader meaning than adhesion:

adhesion (noun)	pathology (noun)
faithful support for a cause or political party or religion	the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition	any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
a fibrous band of scar tissue that binds together normally separate anatomical structures
abnormal union of bodily tissues; most common in the abdomen