Ôr'gan-ŏl'o-gy, n.

noun

n. [Fr. organologie, from Gr. ὄργανον, an organ, and λόγος, discourse.]

Sense 1. The science of, or an account of, organs and their uses.

The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey.

Sense 2. (Physiol.) That branch which treats, in particular, of the different organs of animals. See MORPHOLOGY.