nosology

English

Etymology

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

Noun

nosology (countable and uncountable, plural nosologies)

1. A treatise or written classification of diseases.
2. The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
3. 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)

Related terms

• nosocomial

Translations

the systematic investigation or classification of disease

• Basque: nosologia f
• Catalan: nosologia f
• Czech: nosologie f
• Dutch: nosologie (nl) f
• French: nosologie (fr) f
• German: Nosologie (de) f
• Italian: nosologia (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nosologi m

• Polish: nozologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: nosologia (pt) f
• Spanish: nosología f
• Swedish: nosologi

Anagrams

• sonology