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▪ I. nosology|nəˈsɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. nosologia (so Sp. and It.; F. nosologie), a. Gr. type *νοσολογία: see noso- and -logy.]
1. A classification or arrangement of diseases.
1721Bailey, Nosology,..a Treatise concerning Diseases. 1777–84Cullen First Lines Physic (1808) Introd. §2 To establish a Methodical Nosology, or an arrangement of diseases according to their genera and species. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 5 In Dr. Cullen's Nosology we find diseases of arteries, veins, glands, &c., brought together under one order. 1857T. Watson Lect. Phys. (ed. 4) 12 That phantom—a perfect methodical nosology. 1860Tanner Pregnancy i. 7 Such an expression should hardly have a place in any scientific nosology.
transf.1785Reid Intell. Powers vi. viii. 652 It were to be wished that we had also a nosology of the human understanding.
b. A collection or combination of diseases.
1823De Quincey Lett. on Self-Educ. (1860) 139 A sentence..liable to a whole nosology of malconformations. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. i, All this fatal nosology of spiritual maladies, so rife in our day.
c. The list or catalogue of known diseases.
1839Carlyle Chartism ix, There is no disease in the Nosology but he can trace in himself some symptoms of it. 1899Times 25 Aug. 8/2 [Plague] is one of the easiest of the great epidemic diseases to combat in our whole nosology.
2. Systematic or scientific classification or investigation of diseases; that branch of medical science which deals with this.
1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Medicine, The second branch considers the diseases of the human body, their differences, causes, and effects; and is called..nosology, when it examines their differences. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 42 There is little hope of seeing a theory of medicine, or a System of Nosology established, which..will..stand the test of ages. 1827Lancet 17 Nov. 252/2 Nosology is of course frequently taught without therapeutics. 1881G. Macdonald M. Marston III. xiv. 256 Nosology is a science doomed, thank God, to perish. Health alone will at last fill the earth.
transf.1849Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) I. 345 Phenomena in the science of mental nosology. Ibid. II. 406 Ecclesiastical Nosology, or the Morbid Anatomy of the Church.
3. The special character of a particular disease, or the views current with regard to this.
1825Sporting Mag. XVI. 355 A satisfactory conclusion is, to agree on the nosology of the disease. 1876Trans. Clinical Soc. IX. 91 With a reference to the divided state of the nosology of leuchæmia.
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