Meaning & use

nosological

adjective·Academic

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Relating to nosology, the branch of medicine dealing with the classification of diseases.

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The paper proposed a new nosological framework for distinguishing related autoimmune disorders.

Doctors debated the nosological boundary between two similar psychiatric conditions.

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Nosology comes from the Greek "nosos" (disease) and "-logia" (study of), and the field focuses on how diseases are named, grouped, and defined.

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