Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine of signs in general; specifically, in pathology, a description of the marks or symptoms of diseases.

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

  • Same as semeiography, semeiology, semeiological.

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  • noun medicine A description of the signs of disease.

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  • After he has assimilated the brilliant theories, the physician sees himself forced to the unpleas - [Page 220] ant labor of the semiography, that is to making a record of the symptoms revealed by his observation of and experiments with the patients.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

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