pathognomy

[puh-thog-nuh-mee]

noun Medicine/Medical.

the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.

Origin of pathognomy

1785–95; pathognom(ic) + -y³

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Historical Examples of pathognomy

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

study or knowledge of the passions or emotions or their manifestations

Word Origin for pathognomy

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

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