syntactics
noun
syn·tac·tics sin-ˈtak-tiks 
plural in form but singular or plural in construction
: a branch of semiotics that deals with the formal relations between signs or expressions in abstraction from their signification and their interpreters
Word History
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
syntactics
noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction
syn·tac·tics -tiks
: a branch of semiotic that deals with the formal relations between signs or expressions in abstraction from their signification and their interpreters