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Posology vs Nosology - What's the difference?

posology | nosology |

As nouns the difference between posology and nosology

is that posology is (pharmacy) the study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages while nosology is a treatise or written classification of diseases.

posology

English

Noun

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  • (pharmacy) The study of the dosages of drugs, especially the determination of appropriate dosages.

    • 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)