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.
Medical students' disease is a condition frequently reported in medical students, who perceive themselves to be experiencing the symptoms of a disease that they are studying. The condition is associated with the fear of contracting the disease in question. Some authors suggested that the condition must be referred to as nosophobia rather than hypochondriasis, because the quoted studies show a very low percentage of hypochondriacal character of the condition, and hence the term hypochondriasis