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pathognomy

[puh-thog-nuh-mee]
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noun Medicine/Medical.
  1. the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.
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Origin of pathognomy

1785–95; pathognom(ic) + -y3
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  • Pathognomy is the science of expression, and has an exact mathematical basis.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887

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British Dictionary definitions for pathognomy

pathognomy

noun
  1. study or knowledge of the passions or emotions or their manifestations
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Word Origin

C18: from patho- + -gnomy, as in physiognomy
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