What's the difference between description and nosography?
Description
Definition:
(n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
(n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
(n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(2) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(5) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(8) In our laboratory we have contributed to these studies with the description of: a) the regulatory activity of different neuroendocrine substances on interferon-gamma production; b) the characterization of the immune regulation exercised by the muscarinic cholinergic system; c) the in vitro activity of the indoleamines, serotonin and melatonin on the immune response, and the production of these indoleamines by lymphocytes and monocytes, thus establishing a model of paracrine regulation.
(9) Five psychrophilic and five mesophilic phage were selected for a description of some of their biological properties.
(10) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(11) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(12) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
(13) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
(14) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
(15) We report a descriptive study of 56 cases of HIV infection in a primary care center to evaluate its impact on the population on care, the practices at risk, the associated infections and the difficulties for control.
(16) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(17) A brief description of suggested treatment and management regimens for the various forms of AIDS-related psychopathology then follows.
(18) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
(19) A descriptive case study approach was used to analyze findings.
(20) This is the first description of a restriction enzyme from a mycoplasma.
Nosography
Definition:
(n.) A description or classification of diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nosography of these forms is discussed and emphasis laid on pathogenetic hypotheses and diagnostic and therapeutic aspects.
(2) To do so, after defining nosography as well as psychiatric and medical nosography, he studies two ideas of thought.
(3) In a difficult and delicate clinic for adolescents, the author attempts to demonstrate, from new concepts such as "Family Body", the importance to reevaluate classic psychiatric nosography, to differently formulate etiology, pathogenesis, prognosis and treatment of the adolescent crisis.
(4) The alterations of anguish nosography go with a renewed outbreak of studies of clinical and biological ties between anxiety and anxious depressions.
(5) A description of progressive muscular atrophy, the first item in neuro-muscular nosography, figures in the memoir published by F.A.
(6) Considering the major nosographies since Kraepelin, we underline the stability of the two classical functional psychoses and the difficulties in defining a satisfying classification of the intermediate forms.
(7) Nowadays pain should be seen as an important symptom by the psychiatrist, as it points towards some entities in the psychiatric nosography of which treatment has been well established; the general practitioner should always be alert to think about a concomitant psychiatric disturbance that could justify the chronic nature of the complaint.
(8) The present nosography of lymphoproliferative disorders is continuously in progression.
(9) The novel nosography reveals one particular entity: phasophrenia, described as a stereotyped and recurring acute psychotic episode that responds poorly to neuroleptic chemotherapy.
(10) In order to contribute to the knowledge and the nosography of fibroblastic rheumatism, the authors report a case occurring in 68 years old patient.
(11) Among progressive myoclonus epilepsies (PME), the nosography of the Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) has been much debated.
(12) Gilbert's syndrome is a frequent clinical condition with indirect hyperbilirubinemia, with controversial pathogenesis, nosography, and diagnostic criteria.
(13) These data, and the presence of an 'unknown compound', not yet demonstrated in the known forms of GM-gangliosidosis, support the hypothesis that our case may be considered as an 'atypical' form of the variant AB of the gangliosidosis GM and that further studies are necessary to reach a final nosography of these entities.
(14) Is described one case of non-rhizomelic chondro-dysplasia punctata; after an introduction in which the disease is considered in its nosography and ways of genetic transmission and the symptoms are described, the case is examined stressing the gravity of epiphyseal calcifications and the unusual localization of some of them together with megabladder and megacolon.
(15) By applying this pattern to the analytic theory of the different identification process levels and of the gradual constitution of the superego, we finally find out how a lack or an absence of concord between these two dynamics (individual and social) reflect the optimal circumstances of occurrence of a pathology of the moral personality, according to a psychiatric nosography.
(16) The diagnosis of intestinal ischaemia still presents numerous problems in terms of nosography, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment with the result that it is more often excluded than diagnosed.
(17) occlusion have been examined through a Doppler nosography, in order to evaluate the influence of the type of collateral circle on the neurologic damage.
(18) Having analyzed the main nosographies concerning the endogenous psychoses problem, the A. aim at obtaining a subdivision of the psychotic patients into classes based on the similarity shown by the same patients about symptoms found out by a transverse examination.
(19) So, they present a chrono-nosography and they suggest that the continuous form of primary headaches can be divided into two forms, one of these is associated with affective troubles.
(20) nosography is discussed for what concerns the variable features emphasized by our observations, the correlation between P.M. and P.M.S., and the problem of P.M.S.