Nosology vs Aetiology - What's the difference?
nosology | aetiology |
A treatise or written classification of diseases.
The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
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)
The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , I.c:
The study of causes or causation.
(medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
As nouns the difference between nosology and aetiology
is that nosology is a treatise or written classification of diseases while aetiology is the establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.nosology
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(wikipedia nosology)Noun
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(wikipedia aetiology)Alternative forms
* * etiology (American)Noun
- I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams .
