nosology

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A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.

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Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things. Sherwin B. Nuland

A chief difficulty in nosology is that diseases often cannot be defined and classified clearly, especially when etiology or pathogenesis are unknown. Source: Internet

The time component Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828–1899) Psychiatric nosology in the nineteenth-century was chaotic and characterised by a conflicting mosaic of contradictory systems. Source: Internet

Thus, all purely symptomatic categories have disappeared from the nosology". Source: Internet

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