symptomatology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: symp=tom=a=tol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

symptomatology, n. [Gr. , , symptom + -logy: cf. F. symptomatologie.].

 The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.  [1913 Webster]
" It includes diagnosis, or the determination of the disease from its symptoms; and prognosis, or the determination of its probable course and event."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

symptomatology, n. the branch of medicine concerned with the study and interpretation of symptoms.

ROGET THESAURUS

symptomatology

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.