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symptomatology|ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. symptōmatologia, f. symptōmat-, symptōma symptom + -logia -logy.]
1. The study of symptoms; that branch of pathology which treats of the symptoms of disease; also, a discourse or treatise on symptoms.
1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 564 An abridged Physiology, Pathology, and Sym[p]tomatology. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 633 Definitions..founded upon a principle of symptomatology rather than of etiology. 1831J. F. South tr. Otto's Pathol. Anat. 1 So intimately..is pathological anatomy connected with pathology, symptomatology, and surgery. 1869Tanner Clin. Med. (ed. 2) 98 Without a correct knowledge of symptomatology or semeiology—the science which treats of the symptoms and signs of disease—we can know but little of the art of medicine.
2. transf. The symptoms of a disease collectively (as a subject of study).
1798in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1799) II. 185 To attend the more particularly to the symptomatologia, or symptomatology of the disease. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 129 Some cases of acute arsenical poisoning are not distinguishable by their symptomatology or morbid anatomy from cases of epidemic cholera.
So symptomatological |ˌsɪmptəmətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl| a., pertaining or relating to symptomatology (whence ˌsymptomatoˈlogically adv.); symptomatologist |ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪst|, one versed in symptomatology; one who studies or treats of the symptoms of disease.
1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xi. 122, I would defy the most accurate symptomatologist to point out any marked distinction. 1859Semple Diphtheria 316 If we glance at the symptomatological picture of Diphthérite. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 16 We to-day employ the word crisis rather in a symptomatological way, as an expression for certain appearances. 1889Lancet 12 Jan. 101/1 Alcoholism..exercises on the organism effects manifesting themselves symptomatologically by the diminution of vitality. |