It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 23rd-most populous of the 50 United States.
Nosology (from Ancient Greek Î½ÏÏÎ¿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.
Epidemiology. HAP is the second most common nosocomial infection in the United States and is associated with high mortality and morbidity. HAP occurs at a rate between 5 and 15 cases per 1,000 hospital admissions and accounted for approximately 15% of all hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).