Dictionary

nosology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌnoʊˈsɑləd͡ʒi/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌnɒˈsɒləd͡ʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Ancient Greek νόσος (nósos, “disease”) + Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “discourse, branch of knowledge”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A treatise or written classification of diseases.
2. (countable, uncountable) The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
3. (countable, uncountable) The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
   • 2003: Thomas Arnold … constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)

Forms

Deriveds

nosological · nosologist · zoonosology · psychonosology

Relateds

nosocomial

Translations (14)

id nosologi (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · eu nosologia (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · pt nosologia (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · pl nozologia (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · el νοσολογία (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · ca nosologia (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · de Nosologie (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · it nosologia (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · nl nosologie (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · sv nosologi (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · fr nosologie (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · nb nosologi (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · es nosología (the systematic investigation or classification of disease) · cs nosologie (the systematic investigation or classification of disease)