pathognomy

[ puh-thog-nuh-mee ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.

pathognomy

/ pəˈθɒɡnəmɪ /

noun

1. study or knowledge of the passions or emotions or their manifestations

Word History and Origins

Origin of pathognomy¹

First recorded in 1785–95; pathognomon(ic) ( def ) + -y ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of pathognomy¹

C18: from patho- + -gnomy, as in physiognomy

Example Sentences

We should want a more satisfactory explanation than hitherto of the most familiar connexions by which tears, and voice in general, with its varieties of language, laughter, sighs, with many other specialisations lying in the line of pathognomy and physiognomy, are formed from their mental source.

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Every man has his direct intuitive method of physiognomy and pathognomy, yet one man understands more clearly than another these signatura rerum.

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Hereupon he reckoned up to my hero the whole pathognomy of love, the sighing, the silence, the distraction, which he had noticed in Beata and from which he deduced that her heart was no longer vacant--he himself was lodged there, he perceived.

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Far more do we realize this when we master the science of Pathognomy, and discover that all the attributes or faculties of the human soul, and all its complex relations with the body, are demonstrably subject to mathematical laws.

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They constitute the science of Pathognomy.

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