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Symptomatology

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    The aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease; the pattern of symptoms, and their timing, that is characteristic of it. countable

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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