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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