symptomatology

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

noun

1. the branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
2. the collective symptoms of a patient or disease.

symptomatology

/ ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of symptomatology¹

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

Example Sentences

Every case must be taken upon its individual merits, and differentiated upon symptomatology alone.

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Detailed discussions of symptomatology in similar conditions have heretofore been given, and further repetition is unnecessary.

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The course of the disorder, like its symptomatology, offers nothing of a definite, characteristic nature.

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Her entire symptomatology was controlled and fashioned almost wholly by her immediate environment.

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A change into mania is not an indispensable feature of the symptomatology of melancholic depression.

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