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natural history
Saturday 6 April 2019
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In greek, "Historia" means the description. The natural history is the description of nature.
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is called a naturalist or natural historian.
In medicine, the natural history of diseases is the description of phenomenons observed by physicians and pathologists.
