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Webster 1913 Edition


Nosologist

No-sol′o-gist

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
nosologiste
.]
One versed in nosology.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nosologist

NOSOL'OGIST

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Noun.
One who classifies diseases, arranges them in order and gives them suitable names.

Definition 2024


nosologist

nosologist

English

Noun

nosologist (plural nosologists)

  1. One who studies diseases.
    • 2008 March 17, Janet Maslin, “The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics”, in New York Times:
      Disagreeing with Iowa’s nosologist, Ms. Petersen says the lethal consequences of overprescribed or misprescribed drugs are too readily accepted as “natural” death.