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nosologies

nosologies is the plural of nosology.

Meaning of nosology

Noun

nosology (countable and uncountable, plural nosologies)

  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.
    • 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)

Questions about nosologies

What is nosologies the plural of?
Nosologies is the plural of nosology.

Words near nosologies in the dictionary

  1. nosographies
  2. nosography
  3. nosologic
  4. nosological
  5. nosologically
  6. nosologies
  7. nosologist
  8. nosologists
  9. nosology
  10. nosomania
  11. nosonomy

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