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Nosology

//ˌnɒˈsɒləd͡ʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A treatise or written classification of diseases. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease wordnet
  3. 3
    The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease. countable, uncountable

    "2003: Thomas Arnold … constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)"

Etymology

From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).

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