nosology

American  

[noh-sol-uh-jee] / noʊˈsɒl ə dʒi /

noun

1. the systematic classification of diseases.

2. the knowledge of a disease.

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nosology British  

/ ˌnɒsəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, nɒˈsɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. the branch of medicine concerned with the classification of diseases

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Other Word Forms

• nosological adjective
• nosologically adverb
• nosologist noun

Etymology

Origin of nosology

From the New Latin word nosologia, dating back to 1715–25. See noso-, -logy

Example Sentences

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

There are many similar examples in nosology of this possibility of some habit predisposing to or favoring the development of disease.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Virchow considers that the region of the abnormal is the region of pathology, and that the study of disease must be regarded distinctly as nosology.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock

But we have a remark 397to make on nosology, or the noses of the group.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

On the principle which he thus assumes, he forms his table of nosology, arrays his diseases into families, and extends his curative treatment, by analogy, to all the cases he has thus arbitrarily marshaled together.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson