< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

NOSOLOGY (Gr. νόσος, disease, and λόγος, science), that branch of medical science which deals with the classification of diseases; the term is applied also to a collection of diseases, and to the special character of a particular disease and the different opinions concerning it.

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