what is nosology
Nosology (from Ancient Greek Î½ÏÏÎ¿Ï (nosos) , meaning disease, and - Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î± (-logia) , meaning study of-) is a branch of medicine that deals with classification of diseases.homas Sydenham 's work in the late 17th century might also be considered a nosology. In the 19th century, Emil Kraepelin and then Jacques Bertillon developed their own nosologies. Bertillon's work, classifying causes of death, was a precursor of the modern code system, the International Classification of Diseases.