Definition of "nosology" in English

noun

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)