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
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Since the discovery of the spirillar test for relapsing fever it may be said that Griesinger's bilious typhoid must be stricken from medical nosology as an independent affection.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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 Lewis Gaylord Clark
Barring tautology, In demonology, 'Lectro biology, Mystic nosology, Spirit philology, High class astrology, Such is his knowledge, he Isn't the man to require an apology Oh!
From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
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 Thomas Garnett
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