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SYMPTOMATOLOGY

Definition: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

SYMPTOMATOLOGY

Noun

1. The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SYMPTOMATOLOGY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Specialty Definition: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

DomainDefinition

Health

1. that branch of medicine with treats of symptoms; the systematic discussion of symptoms. 2. the combined symptoms of a disease. (references)

Medicine

The aggregate of symptoms of a disease. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interpretation

Symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography; (philology); oneirology

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

English words defined with "SYMPTOMATOLOGY": Semiology. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basic data on depressive symptomatology, United States, 1974-75 (reference)

  • Color Atlas of Galactography: Clinical and Radiological Symptomatology and Therapy of The... (reference)

  • Symptomatology of metastatic cancer (reference)

  • The Meaning of Madness: Symptomatology, Sociology, Biology, and Therapy of the Schizophrenias (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Approximately 60 percent of patients clinically improve, but many of them retain significant residual symptomatology. (references)

About 800,000 persons are widowed each year, most of them are old and experience varying degrees of depressive symptomatology. (references)

Clarify the relationship between subcortical brain abnormalities, depressive and cognitive symptomatology, and early- versus late-onset depression in the elderly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

"SYMPTOMATOLOGY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SYMPTOMATOLOGY" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1493,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

symptomatology

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

Language Translations for "SYMPTOMATOLOGY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

症状学. (various references)

   

Danish

  

symptomatologi. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

symptomatologie (symptoms and signs). (various references)

   

French

  

symptomatologie. (various references)

   

German

  

Symptomatologie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δεν υπάρχει καθαρή συσχέτιση μεταξύ της συμπεριφοράς της χολινεστεράσης του ορού και των ερυθροκυττάρων και της κλινικής συμπτωματολογία (and consequently it is not possible to clinically evaluate the intoxication on the basis of ferment ( or enzyme ) content, no clear correlation exists between the behaviour of serous erythrocytic cholinesterase and clinical symptomatology). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sintomatologia (symptoms and signs). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ymptomatologysay

   

Portuguese

  

sintomatologia. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

no existe una correlación clara entre el comportamiento de la colinesterasa del suero y globular y la sintomatología clínica, por lo que no es posible valorar clínicamente la intoxicación basándose en el contenido de fermentos (o enzimas) (and consequently it is not possible to clinically evaluate the intoxication on the basis of ferment ( or enzyme ) content, no clear correlation exists between the behaviour of serous erythrocytic cholinesterase and clinical symptomatology). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

semptomataloji, hastalık belirtilerini ele alan bilim dalı, hastalık belirtileri (syndrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SYMPTOMATOLOGY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-l-m-m-o-o-o-p-s-t-t-y-y"

-4 letters: somatology.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-l-m-m-o-o-o-p-s-t-t-y-y"
 

+5 letters: symptomatologically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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