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

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

You touch the focal centre of all our disease, of our frightful nosology of diseases, when you lay your hand on this.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

From systems of nosology, I had little assistance to expect; since the arbitrary distributions of Sauvages and Cullen were better calculated to impress the conviction of their insufficiency than to simplify my labor.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society

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!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

For I must remark that pathological does not mean harmful; it does not indicate disease; disease in Greek is νὁσος, and it is nosology that is concerned with disease.

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