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Nosology: The systematic classification of diseases, or the branch of medical science that deals thereto. The adjective is nosologic. There is "ongoing nosologic controversy and confusion" concerning "dementia with brainstem and neocortical Lewy bodies" (Neurology,1997;48:126).
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n. , pl. , -gies . The branch of medicine that deals with the classification of diseases. A classification of diseases. nosological no ' so·log ' i·cal ( -sÉ™-lÅj ...
Definition of NOSOLOGY. 1: a classification or list of diseases . 2: a branch of medical science that deals with classification of diseases — no·so·log·i·cal ...
nosology /no·sol·o·gy/ (no-sol´ah-je) the science of the classification of diseases.nosolog´ic. no·sol·o·gy (n-s l-j, -z l-) n. 1. The branch of medicine that ...
noun 1. the systematic classification of diseases. 2. the knowledge of a disease. Origin: 1715–25; < Neo-Latin nosologia. See noso- , -logy Related forms nos·o ...