symptomatology

Meaning

1. (uncountable) The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine, differential diagnosis, public health, and so on.
2. (countable) The aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease; the pattern of symptoms, and their timing, that is characteristic of it.

Synonyms

semiology

semeiology

semiotics

semeiotics

study of symptoms

Translations

sintomatologia

semeiotica

symptomatologie

sintomatología

Symptomatologie

طب الأعراض

symptomatologie

sintomatologia

étude des symptômes

عِلْم اَلْأَعْرَاض

simptomatologia

Semiologie

Etymology

Cognate with French: symptomatologie

In summary

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “symptom (of diseases)”) and -λογία (-logía, “study, branch of knowledge”) (i.e., symptomato- and -logy). Compare French symptomatologie.