symptomatology

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “symptom (of diseases)”) and -λογία (-logía, “study, branch of knowledge”) (i.e., symptomato- and -logy). Compare French symptomatologie.

  1. derived from σύμπτωμα

Definitions

  1. The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine,…

    The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine, differential diagnosis, public health, and so on.

    • Big Pharma has redefined the symptomatology of medical conditions in such a way as to expand enormously the market for its drugs.
  2. The aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease

    The aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease; the pattern of symptoms, and their timing, that is characteristic of it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for symptomatology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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