symptomatology

English

Etymology

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

Noun

symptomatology (countable and uncountable, plural symptomatologies)

1. (uncountable) The scientific study of the symptoms of diseases, as an aspect of clinical medicine, differential diagnosis, public health, and so on.

   Synonyms: symptomology (informal), symptomatics (rare)

   • 2012, James Le Fanu, “Bitter Pills to Swallow”, in Literary Review, number 399:

     Big Pharma has redefined the symptomatology of medical conditions in such a way as to expand enormously the market for its drugs.

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

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptomatical
• asymptomatically
• asymptomaticity
• asymptomatology
• symptomatic
• symptomatical
• symptomatically
• symptomaticity
• symptomatics
• symptomatologic
• symptomatological
• symptomatologically
• symptomatologist
• symptomless
• symptomlessness

 

Translations

science that studies the symptoms of diseases

• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْأَعْرَاض m (ʕilm al-ʔaʕrāḍ)
• Danish: symptomatologi c
• Dutch: symptomatologie (nl) f
• Finnish: oireoppi, symptomatologia
• French: symptomatologie (fr) f
• German: Symptomatologie (de) f, Symptomatik (de) f, Symptomlehre f
• Greek: συμπτωματολογία (el) f (symptomatología)
• Italian: sintomatologia (it) f, semeiotica (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: symptomatologi m

  Nynorsk: symptomatologi m

• Polish: symptomatologia (pl) f
• Swedish: symtomatologi c, symptomatologi c
• Turkish: semptomatoloji

aggregate of symptoms of a particular disease

• Danish: symptomatologi c
• French: symptomatologie (fr) f
• German: Symptomatik (de) f, Symptomatologie (de) f
• Greek: συμπτωματολογία (el) f (symptomatología)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: symptomatologi m

  Nynorsk: symptomatologi m

• Swedish: symtomatologi c, symptomatologi c