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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nose.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The sum of scientific knowledge concerning the nose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The science which treats of the nose, and its diseases.

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  • noun The scientific study of the nose

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Examples

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    2009 June 23 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    2009 June « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    Local Founders Profile: Edward and Annie Robinson « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    2009 June 23 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    2009 June « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • For a time he was assistant to the chief of clinic in rhinology and laryngology at this institution, and he also served as assistant in the genito-urinary clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital Dispensary.

    Local Founders Profile: Edward and Annie Robinson « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Some student in the rhinology department had taken out the turbinates in his nose—and the whole rhinology department, judging from the notes, had taken turns finding and irrigating his sphenoid sinuses—the most difficult sinuses in the human head to reach.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Some student in the rhinology department had taken out the turbinates in his nose—and the whole rhinology department, judging from the notes, had taken turns finding and irrigating his sphenoid sinuses—the most difficult sinuses in the human head to reach.

    Sherlock Holmes on acid Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Schneider, 9.234 the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Schneider, the father of rhinology, mentions a woman in whom the odor of orange-flowers produced syncope.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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  • You'd think the study of certian horned ungulates, but acutally, the study of noses.

    March 6, 2007