nosology

== English == === Etymology === From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌnɒˈsɒləd͡ʒi/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌnoʊˈsɑləd͡ʒi/ === Noun === 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) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== nosocomial ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === sonology