Symptomatology
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine, differential diagnosis, public health, and so on. uncountable
"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 pattern of symptoms, and their timing, that is characteristic of it. countable
Example
More examples"“Individuals who watched a great deal of television in the first week after 9/11 were more likely to exhibit post-traumatic stress symptomatology and physical health ailments years later,” she says."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “symptom (of diseases)”) and -λογία (-logía, “study, branch of knowledge”) (i.e., symptomato- and -logy). Compare French symptomatologie.
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