No, although it sounds like it might be. Instead it is
defined as a branch of medical science that deals with classification of
diseases. (The Greek word for disease is nosos). Poet Matthew Arnold (1822 –
1888) once lamented:
“Not bring, to see me cease to live,
Some doctor, full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.”
Painted images of noses for Napoleon and George Washington
came from Wikimedia Commons.
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