Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The medical science of symptoms.
- noun The combined symptoms of a disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum of scientific knowledge concerning symptoms; also, the array of symptoms presented by a disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
science that studies thesymptoms ofdiseases . - noun countable All the symptoms of a particular disease.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The depressive phase of classic bipolar disorder has symptomatology no different than that of chronic depression.
An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the clinical world, too often attention is focused only on controlling a child's bad behavior, and not enough on the complex and disturbing feelings and inner struggles that may only be expressed in behavioral symptomatology.
Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon: Madgirl Part 4: Lost to Follow-Up? Dr. Prudence L. Gourguechon 2010
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And a 2007 study in Stress and Health, showed that a gradual decline in physical and psychological symptomatology in the months after a flood in Thailand, was followed by a marked increase in symptoms as the one-year anniversary drew near.
James S. Gordon: Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Reactions James S. Gordon 2011
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Likewise, GERD has been linked to underlying anxiety and stress is clearly associated with worsened symptomatology.
Gerard E. Mullin, M.D.: Your Good Gut Guide to a Healthy New Year M.D. Gerard E. Mullin 2011
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Often at the point of actually losing "the fix" the person not only suffers psychological devastation, but the actual symptomatology of physical withdrawal: sweating, cramps, anxiety, nausea, sleeplessness, eating difficulties and disorientation.
PBS' 'This Emotional Life': Signs That Your 'Loving Relationship' May Be an Addiction Psy.D. Suzanne B. Phillips 2011
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And a 2007 study in Stress and Health, showed that a gradual decline in physical and psychological symptomatology in the months after a flood in Thailand, was followed by a marked increase in symptoms as the one-year anniversary drew near.
James S. Gordon: Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Reactions James S. Gordon 2011
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To those familiar with PACS symptomatology, this is not surprising: interpersonal disturbances don't register for PACS sufferers simply because "interpersonal" requires at least two participants in a give and take.
Bernard Starr: Update on the Pandemic Disease of the 21st Century Bernard Starr 2011
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To those familiar with PACS symptomatology, this is not surprising: interpersonal disturbances don't register for PACS sufferers simply because "interpersonal" requires at least two participants in a give and take.
Bernard Starr: Update on the Pandemic Disease of the 21st Century Bernard Starr 2011
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"I said 85 percent of State Department posts had adequate medical care that could care for Ms. Meyer were she to have an exacerbation of her multiple sclerosis, her symptoms, her symptomatology," agency physician Emil Von Arx III told Schwartz during a deposition in 2008.
For a Foreign Service officer with MS, what is 'around the world'? Joe Davidson 2010
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Likewise, GERD has been linked to underlying anxiety and stress is clearly associated with worsened symptomatology.
Gerard E. Mullin, M.D.: Your Good Gut Guide to a Healthy New Year M.D. Gerard E. Mullin 2011
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