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Webster 1913 Edition
Nosology
No-sol′o-gy
,Noun.
[Gr.
νόσοσ
disease + -logy
: cf. F. nosologie
.] 1.
A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.
2.
That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nosology
NOSOL'OGY
,Noun.
1.
A treatise on diseases, or a systematic arrangement or classification of diseases with names and definitions, according to the distinctive character of each class, order, genus and species.2.
That branch of medical science which treats of the classification of diseases.Definition 2024
nosology
nosology
English
Noun
nosology (plural nosologies)
- A treatise or written classification of diseases.
- The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
- The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
- 2003: Thomas Arnold [...] constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)