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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to semiotics.
  • adjective Relating to symptomatology.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to signs; specifically, relating to the symptoms of diseases; symptomatic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Same as semeiotic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.
  • adjective medicine, dated Of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to semiotics

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek sēmeiōtikos, observant of signs, significant, from sēmeiōsis, indication, from sēmeioun, to signal, to interpret as a sign, from sēmeion, sign, from sēma.]

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