nosology

Definitions

1. A treatise or written classification of diseases.
   countable, uncountable
2. The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
   countable, uncountable
3. The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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