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symptomatology

[ simp-tuh-muh-tol-uh-jee ]

noun

  1. the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
  2. the collective symptoms of a patient or disease.


symptomatology

/ ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪ /

noun

  1. the branch of medicine concerned with the study and classification of the symptoms of disease
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of symptomatology1

1790–1800; < New Latin symptōmatologia, equivalent to Late Latin symptōmat- (stem of symptōma ) symptom + -o- -o- + -logia -logy
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Example Sentences

Every case must be taken upon its individual merits, and differentiated upon symptomatology alone.

Detailed discussions of symptomatology in similar conditions have heretofore been given, and further repetition is unnecessary.

The course of the disorder, like its symptomatology, offers nothing of a definite, characteristic nature.

Her entire symptomatology was controlled and fashioned almost wholly by her immediate environment.

A change into mania is not an indispensable feature of the symptomatology of melancholic depression.

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