Taphology
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The study of graves and burial. uncountable
"So much has been written upon the subject of this direful malady, a disease which, up to the present time, has baffled the most skillful followers of the Esculapian art, that it seems unnecessary to enter into detail describing the character of the tubercular bacillus, or the numerous failures for destroying this germ, or the taphology developed by the action of these germs upon the human organism."
Example
More examples"So much has been written upon the subject of this direful malady, a disease which, up to the present time, has baffled the most skillful followers of the Esculapian art, that it seems unnecessary to enter into detail describing the character of the tubercular bacillus, or the numerous failures for destroying this germ, or the taphology developed by the action of these germs upon the human organism."
Etymology
From tapho- + -logy.
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