Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in nosology; one who classifies diseases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in nosology.
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- noun One who studies
diseases .
Etymologies
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nosology + -ist
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Examples
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Tremor has been adopted, as a genus, by almost every nosologist; but always unmarked, in their several definitions, by such characters as would embrace this disease.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
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_Tremor coactum_ of Sylvius de la Boë and of Sauvages, and _Scelotyrbe festinans_ of the latter nosologist, which appear to be characteristic symptoms of this disease, it becomes necessary, in the next place, to endeavour to distinguish this disease from others which may bear a resemblance to it in some particular respects.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
sionnach commented on the word nosologist
By the time Melody Petersen gets around to interviewing Iowa’s state nosologist near the end of “Our Daily Meds,�? the facts that she cites don’t even sound that grim. The nosologist’s job is to catalog Iowa’s deceased according to cause of death.
Janet Maslin, New York Times, March 17th 2008
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March 20, 2008