Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The medical science of symptoms.
- n. The combined symptoms of a disease.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sum of scientific knowledge concerning symptoms; also, the array of symptoms presented by a disease.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The science that studies the symptoms of diseases.
- n. countable All the symptoms of a particular disease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek symptom + -logy: compare French symptomatologie. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin symptōmatologia : Greek sumptōma, sumptōmat-, symptom; see symptom + Latin -logia, -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To those familiar with PACS symptomatology, this is not surprising: interpersonal disturbances don't register for PACS sufferers simply because "interpersonal" requires at least two participants in a give and take.”
The Huffington Post: Bernard Starr: Update on the Pandemic Disease of the 21st Century
“I said 85 percent of State Department posts had adequate medical care that could care for Ms. Meyer were she to have an exacerbation of her multiple sclerosis, her symptoms, her symptomatology," agency physician Emil Von Arx III told Schwartz during a deposition in 2008.”
The Washington Post: For a Foreign Service officer with MS, what is 'around the world'?
“And a 2007 study in Stress and Health, showed that a gradual decline in physical and psychological symptomatology in the months after a flood in Thailand, was followed by a marked increase in symptoms as the one-year anniversary drew near.”
The Huffington Post: James S. Gordon: Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Reactions
“Often at the point of actually losing "the fix" the person not only suffers psychological devastation, but the actual symptomatology of physical withdrawal: sweating, cramps, anxiety, nausea, sleeplessness, eating difficulties and disorientation.”
“Likewise, GERD has been linked to underlying anxiety and stress is clearly associated with worsened symptomatology.”
The Huffington Post: Gerard E. Mullin, M.D.: Your Good Gut Guide to a Healthy New Year
“The depressive phase of classic bipolar disorder has symptomatology no different than that of chronic depression.”
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In the clinical world, too often attention is focused only on controlling a child's bad behavior, and not enough on the complex and disturbing feelings and inner struggles that may only be expressed in behavioral symptomatology.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Madgirl Part 4: Lost to Follow-Up?
“We administered a measure of explicit learning for comparison purposes and we administered a reliable index of autistic symptomatology that relates to real-world implicit learning performance.”
“Finally, we found no relationship between implicit learning ability in the laboratory and real-world autism spectrum condition symptomatology.”
“Also, radiologists are more familiar with the various imaging equipment and can best determine the appropriate imaging modality (e.g. CT vs. MR) for the patient's symptomatology.”
Helene Pavlov: Radiology, Rising Healthcare Costs and Self-Referral
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