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Nosology

noun
1.
The branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease.  Synonym: diagnostics.






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... convictions, or at least not further than to make them look upon exposure to cold and errors of diet as amply explanatory of all diseases not plainly infectious. The medical writers who were most revered were those who busied themselves with nosology; that is to say, the naming and classifying of diseases. Wonderful were the onomatological feats performed by some of these men, and most diverse and grotesque were the data on which they founded their classifications. To label a disease was high art; to cure it ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord



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