different between nosology vs nosography

English

From post-classical Latin nosologia, formed as from Greek ????? ‘disease’ + -????? ‘discourse, branch of knowledge’.

nosology (countable and uncountable, plural nosologies)

A treatise or written classification of diseases.
The study of diseases; the systematic investigation or classification of disease.
The characteristics or scientific understanding of a specific disease.
- 2003: Thomas Arnold [...] constructed a nosology of insanity explicitly on the basis of the Lockean philosophy of mind — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 312)

noso- +? -graphy

nosography (countable and uncountable, plural nosographies)

(pathology, medicine, uncountable) The systematic naming and description of diseases.
(pathology, medicine, countable) A treatise on diseases.

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