symptomatologyn.
/ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒi/ 1. The study of symptoms; that branch of pathology which treats of the symptoms of disease; also, a discourse or treatise on symptoms.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [noun] > study or description of symptoms
spasmology1681
symptomatography1736
symptomatics1748
symptomatology1804
pathognomy1822
semiology1839
semiography1853
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 564 An abridged Physiology, Pathology, and Sym [p] tomatology.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 554 Definitions..founded upon a principle of symptomatology rather than of etiology.
1831 J. F. South tr. A. W. Otto Pathol. Anat. 1 So intimately..is pathological anatomy connected with pathology, symptomatology, and surgery.
1869 T. H. Tanner 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. transferred. The symptoms of a disease collectively (as a subject of study).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > set of symptoms
syndrome?1541
symptomatology1798
symptomology1868
symptom-complex1897
symptom-group1897
triad1899
tetralogy1927
1798 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) 2 185 To attend the more particularly to the symptomatologia, or symptomatology of the disease.
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 108 Some cases of acute arsenical poisoning are not distinguishable by their symptomatology or morbid anatomy from cases of epidemic cholera.
Derivatives
symptomatological adj. /ˌsɪmptəmətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/ pertaining or relating to symptomatology.
/ˌsɪmptəmətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/ pertaining or relating to symptomatology.ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [adjective] > study of symptoms
symptomatic1767
semiological1839
symptomatological1859
1859 R. H. Semple tr. P. Bretonneau et al. Mem. Diphtheria 316 If we glance at the symptomatological picture of Diphthérite.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 16 We to-day employ the word crisis rather in a symptomatological way, as an expression for certain appearances.
ˌsymptomatoˈlogically adv.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [adverb] > study of symptoms
symptomatologically1889
1889 Lancet 12 Jan. 101/1 Alcoholism..exercises on the organism effects manifesting themselves symptomatologically by the diminution of vitality.
symptomatologist n. /ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪst/ a person versed in symptomatology; one who studies or treats of the symptoms of disease.
/ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪst/ a person versed in symptomatology; one who studies or treats of the symptoms of disease.ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > in disease
symptomatologist1843
therapist1886
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xi. 122 I would defy the most accurate symptomatologist to point out any marked distinction.
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