nosology
- noun
- /nəˈzɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
:
nosología
- Nosology is the science of the classification of diseases.
- psychiatric nosology
Examples
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The first principle of nosology is the distinction between the normal and the pathological.
Academic text (2002) -
In medical schools, students study nosology to learn how diseases are categorized.
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The difficulties connected with applying etiological functions to psychiatric nosologies are numerous.
Academic text (1999) -
This approach is the reverse of the one applied by practitioners of the present psychiatric nosology, in which the classification of specific symptoms is a prerequisite to prescribing remedies.
Academic text (1995) -
With our primitive, bureaucratically driven educational classification system, sometimes invoked through diagnosis by democracy in team settings, we are not even allowed to benefit from modern clinical nosology, which has grown tremendously in the area of child diagnosis and psychopathology.
Academic text (1994) -
Understanding nosology is essential for researchers aiming to identify and treat various illnesses.
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The first principle of nosology is the distinction between the normal and the pathological.
Synonyms
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The tests and methods doctors use to find and name diseases
Surface Forms
Morphology
nosology = noso + logy
Although the word is built from a classical combining form meaning 'disease' and the suffix '-logy' meaning 'study', the components are not standalone English words and the specialized sense is not directly predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Nosology comes from the Greek roots nosos meaning 'disease' and logos meaning 'study', the same '-logy' you see in biology and psychology. So nosology is the part of medicine that names and sorts diseases, and it is the system doctors use to classify illnesses.