Crossword clues for nosology
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]
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(Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
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(Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body.
--Virchow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A treatise or written classification of diseases. 2 The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease. 3 The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
WordNet
n. the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease [syn: diagnostics]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "nosology".
Whereas there existed an enormous nosology of pain, an endless clinical listing of negative pathological states, there was no psychiatric or psychological classification of the states of excellence, elite accomplishment, or pleasure.
She was suffering from an inflammatory complaint not infrequently fatal, for which our nosology as yet has found no name, a complaint spoken of among women in confidential whispers.
He had established patterns, something close to a nosology, and surely this progress at least gave grounds for hope?
System of Nosology there are instances occurring at seventy-one, eighty, and ninety years.