nosology
English edit
Etymology edit
From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).
Noun edit
nosology (countable and uncountable, plural nosologies)
- A treatise or written classification of diseases.
- The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
- The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
- 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)
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Translations edit
the systematic investigation or classification of disease