How To Use nosology In A Sentence
- During the 17th century, Thomas Sydenham founded the discipline of nosology by insisting that diseases had their own natural history and could be described and classified on the basis of their specific characteristics.
- The members of the international academic community who serve on expert panels that define and develop diagnostic criteria and stage pulmonary diseases need to agree on a set of rules that will govern nosology.
- Psychopathology and psychiatric nosology became the legitimate framework for these interventions.
- Experienced and knowledgeable clinicians, however, can further refine this and other amorphous categories (e.g., hallucinosis secondary to coarse brain disease) by their awareness of the scientific literature, which always runs ahead of the official nosology and offers unofficial, but clinically useful, choices (e.g., catatonia as a treatment-responsive syndrome separate from schizophrenia; various frontal and parietal lobe syndromes). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- So just a few years before Prozac came along, psychiatrists turned to what they called a descriptive nosology. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
- This statement, which appears in the August 2000 issue of Pediatrics, updates a previous AAP statement and reflects the current thinking about alcohol exposure in utero and the revised nosology.
- Nine out of ten doctors using the criteria agreed on diagnoses, a spectacular improvement over the old days of theory-laden nosology. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
- Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, also referred to as inflammatory fibrosarcoma, is a rare tumor composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells of uncertain etiology and disputed nosology.
- Diagnosis, or recognition of the disease, must have been necessarily imperfect, when no scientific nosology, or system of disease* existed, and the knowledge of anatomy was quite inadequate to allow of a precise determination of the seat of disease; but symptoms were no doubt observed and interpreted skilfully. Nature Cure