nosology
Americannoun
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the systematic classification of diseases.
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the knowledge of a disease.
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Origin of nosology
From the New Latin word nosologia, dating back to 1715–25. See noso-, -logy
Example Sentences
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To enumerate the cases in which champagne is of service would be to give a whole nosology.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Vizetelly, Henry
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
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
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
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
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