symptomatology

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

/ ˌsɪmp tə məˈtɒl ə dʒi /

noun

the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.

the collective symptoms of a patient or disease.

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Origin of symptomatology

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

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Examples from the Web for symptomatology

During this period of active anatomical research the symptomatology of gastric cancer was not neglected.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various
Detailed discussions of symptomatology in similar conditions have heretofore been given, and further repetition is unnecessary.
Lameness of the Horse|John Victor Lacroix
That the pain of gastric ulcer has not always these characteristics has been mentioned under the Symptomatology.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II|Various
We shall not review their symptomatology, as it is given in the chapter devoted to this topic.
Scurvy Past and Present|Alfred Fabian Hess

A change into mania is not an indispensable feature of the symptomatology of melancholic depression.
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego|Sigmund Freud

British Dictionary definitions for symptomatology

symptomatology

symptomology

/ (ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪ) /

noun

the branch of medicine concerned with the study and classification of the symptoms of disease

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Word Origin and History for symptomatology

symptomatology

1798, from Modern Latin symptomatologia, from symptomat-, stem of symptoma (see symptom) + -logia (see -logy).

Medicine definitions for symptomatology

symptomatology

[ sĭm′tə-mə-tŏl′ə-jē, sĭmp′- ]

n.

The medical science of symptoms.

The combined symptoms of a disease.