Nosology
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A Nosology is a medical classification of diseases.
- Example(s):
- See: Influenza, Medical Science, Medical Classification, Walter de Gruyter.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nosology Retrieved:2022-6-8.
- Nosology is the branch of medical science that deals with the classification of diseases. Fully classifying a medical condition requires knowing its cause (and that there is only one cause), the effects it has on the body, the symptoms that are produced, and other factors. For example, influenza is classified as an infectious disease because it is caused by a virus, and it is classified as a respiratory infection because the virus infects and damages certain tissues in the respiratory tract. The more that is known about the disease, the more ways the disease can be classified nosologically.
Nosography is a description whose primary purpose is enabling a diagnostic label to be put on the situation. As such, a nosographical entity need not have a single cause. For example, inability to speak due to advanced dementia and an inability to speak due to a stroke could be nosologically different but nosographically the same.
- Nosology is the branch of medical science that deals with the classification of diseases. Fully classifying a medical condition requires knowing its cause (and that there is only one cause), the effects it has on the body, the symptoms that are produced, and other factors. For example, influenza is classified as an infectious disease because it is caused by a virus, and it is classified as a respiratory infection because the virus infects and damages certain tissues in the respiratory tract. The more that is known about the disease, the more ways the disease can be classified nosologically.
2001
- (Mirsky & Duncan, 2001) ⇒ Allan F. Mirsky, and Connie C. Duncan. (2001). “A Nosology of Disorders of Attention.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 931, no. 1
- The trailblazing research on sleep mechanisms and petit mal epilepsy, conducted during the period from 1940 through 1970, illuminated the brain substrate for normal consciousness and attention, as well as their disorders. This research helped inform and structure our neuropsychologically based model of the “elements” of attention. The model has been used to assess attention in the research laboratory and clinic, and has led to a “nosology of disorders of attention,” which is presented here in preliminary form. The nosology reviews the possible causes of the symptom(s) of impaired attention, as well as suggesting a blueprint for future research in this area.
2016
- (Miller, 2016) ⇒ Randolph A. Miller. (2016). “Diagnostic Decision Support Systems.” In: Clinical decision support systems, pp. 181-208 . Springer, Cham,
- QUOTE: ... A more involved definition of diagnosis, specific for clinical diagnosis, is: (Miller, 1990)
- a mapping from a patient’s data (normal and abnormal history, physical examination, and laboratory data) to a nosology of disease states [Definition 2].
- QUOTE: ... A more involved definition of diagnosis, specific for clinical diagnosis, is: (Miller, 1990)