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Friday 5 October 2007

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"Description is infinite and easy; explanation is limited and difficult." Hipoccrates

In philosophy, the theory of description has been an important question.

In greek, "Historia" means the description. The natural history is the description of nature.

Examples

- tumoral desciption
- lesional description
- infectious agent description

See also

- diagnosis
- morphological diagnosis
- tumoral diagnosis
- diagnostic pathology
- pathology