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Nosology is a word, it is said, that most clinicians are unlikely to have heard of,1 yet it describes a process that has occupied the attention of medical scientists since the time of Hippocrates: the systematic classification of diseases.2The word itself is likewise not a new one. It derives in part from nosos, the Greek word for disease, and was in common use in centuries past — as is typified by its presence in the title of the first published attempt to enumerate diseases, the Nosologia Methodica of François Bossier de Lacroix (1706–1777).3
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Monteith, B.D. (1992). Nosology: A Critical Link Between Computers and Dental Education, Practice and Research. In: Abbey, L.M., Zimmerman, J.L. (eds) Dental Informatics. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9160-9_8
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