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

"What we're doing now is the first step, but one would hope that once we get up to hundreds of patients, we'd be able to relate this to symptomatology and make some clinical statements about the Parkinson's pathology."

From Science Daily

According to the authors, "We present a cohort study, consisting of hundreds of samples, that depicts the transcriptional changes driven by respiratory viral infection. We have compiled these data to build a publicly-available, user-friendly web-based resource where any user can compare, longitudinally over the course of 19 months, patterns of viral positivity, symptomatology and transcriptomic changes for the individuals enrolled."

From Science Daily

Fauci told me how, when he arrived at the National Institutes of Health in 1968 he would see patients who had interesting “symptomatology,” as he called it: messed-up bodily systems from brain to gut, including the kidneys, heart, blood and nerves.

From Scientific American

"The symptomatology indicates that it is the atypical form of the disease, which appears spontaneously in nature, causing no risk of dissemination to the herd and to humans," the agency said in a statement.

From Reuters

“The beauty of this study is they have a control group, and they can isolate the proportion of symptomatology that is attributable to Covid infection,” said Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research at the V.A.

From New York Times