nosology
Americannoun
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the systematic classification of diseases.
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the knowledge of a disease.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of nosology
From the New Latin word nosologia, dating back to 1715–25. See noso-, -logy
Example Sentences
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The medical writers who were most revered were those who busied themselves with nosology; that is to say, the naming and classifying of diseases.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by Lord, John
But I will not dwell on the subject of nosology too long.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
This is evident in every part of the nosology of Sauvages and Cullen.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
In pathology, or rather in nosology, by which latter term is meant the systematic arrangement and precise definition of diseases, his merits are very considerable.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
In chemistry and nosology, by extending the degree to a certain point, the constituent proportion may be destroyed, and a new kind produced.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
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