Meaning & use
symptomatology
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The branch of medicine concerned with symptoms, or the collective symptoms of a particular disease.
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The doctor studied the patient's symptomatology before settling on a diagnosis.
Textbooks on symptomatology helped the students recognize patterns across different illnesses.
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Mostly used in clinical and academic medical writing rather than everyday speech.
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semiology
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