symptomatology

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

/ ˌsɪmp tə məˈtɒl ə dʒi /

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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

Words nearby symptomatology

symposiast, symposium, symptom, symptomatic, symptomatize, symptomatology, symptomize, symptomless, symptosis, syn-, synaeresis

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How to use symptomatology in a sentence

Every case must be taken upon its individual merits, and differentiated upon symptomatology alone.
Doctor Jones' Picnic|S. E. Chapman
Detailed discussions of symptomatology in similar conditions have heretofore been given, and further repetition is unnecessary.
Lameness of the Horse|John Victor Lacroix
The course of the disorder, like its symptomatology, offers nothing of a definite, characteristic nature.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry|Bernard Glueck
Her entire symptomatology was controlled and fashioned almost wholly by her immediate environment.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry|Bernard Glueck

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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