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Nosology vs Nosography - What's the difference?

nosology | nosography |

As nouns the difference between nosology and nosography

is that nosology is a treatise or written classification of diseases while nosography is the systematic naming and description of diseases.

nosology

English

(wikipedia nosology)

Noun

(nosologies)
  • 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)

    • nosography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pathology, medicine) The systematic naming and description of diseases