organologicaladj.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Organologicus,..of or belonging to Organologia: organological.

1863 Ladies' Repository July 388/2 A similar interruption exhibits itself in organological development.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 2 Special Anatomy takes for its object the organological composition of the animal body.

1919 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 5 594 The basis of the present classification is not that of pathological causation, but it is rather that of organological breakdown.

1940 Q. Rev. Biol. 15 13/1 The germ-layers are neither organological nor historical entities. It is not possible, if one knows the origin of an organ in one animal group, to carry over the result to all other animal groups.

1947 Bull. Hist. Med. 21 276 Relatively little attention will be paid to the strictly phrenological (i.e. cranioscopic and organological) aspect of Gall's work.

1957 E. H. Kantorowicz King's Two Bodies v. i. 201 The term corpus mysticum, despite all the sociological and organological connotations it had acquired, nevertheless preserved its definitely sacramental ring.

1987 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 20 173 (title) Courting the cerebellum: early organological and phrenological views of sexuality.

1937 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 36 245 Schaeffner..confines himself to an exclusively organological survey of the main types of instruments.

1976 Early Music 4 293/1 Munrow's emphasis on the musical use of instruments reflects a refreshing and welcome new departure in organological studies.

2001 New Grove Dict. Music (Online ed.) at Ethnomusicology Organological research in ethnomusicology, moreover, continued to emphasize the integrity of musical instruments.