symptomatology
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “symptom (of diseases)”) and -λογία (-logía, “study, branch of knowledge”) (i.e., symptomato- and -logy). Compare French symptomatologie.
Noun
[edit]symptomatology (countable and uncountable, plural symptomatologies)
- (uncountable) The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine, differential diagnosis, public health, and so on.
- Synonyms: symptomology (informal), symptomatics (rare)
- 2012, James Le Fanu, “Bitter Pills to Swallow”, in Literary Review, number 399:
- Big Pharma has redefined the symptomatology of medical conditions in such a way as to expand enormously the market for its drugs.
- (countable) The aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease; the pattern of symptoms, and their timing, that is characteristic of it.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]science that studies the symptoms of diseases
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aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease
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