symptomatology
- noun
- /ˌsɪmptəˈmætələdʒi/
- Specialized
- The study of symptomatology is crucial for identifying patterns in how diseases manifest among populations.
- depressive symptomatology
- disorder symptomatology
- adolescent symptomatology
Examples
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As a consequence of its intrinsically slowly growing nature and the nonspecific presenting symptomatology, the diagnosis of carcinoid tumors has often been made only as an incidental finding at surgery or autopsy.
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Patients with extracapsular rupture of a parathyroid adenoma may present with diverse symptomatology.
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Women also reported moderate levels of depressive symptomatology that did not significantly change over the course of the study.
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While the survey could not establish a valid diagnosis for PTSD, some figures did emerge regarding symptomatology.
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In the paper's conclusion, the other findings of cultural differences in mode of onset, symptomatology, and help seeking are deemphasized as well.
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The project was designed to assess long-term outcomes in terms of gender development, sexual behavior, psychiatric symptomatology and diagnosis, and related domains.
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Hepatitis A infection may be asymptomatic or symptomatic, with increasing symptomatology associated with increasing age.
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The immune system plays a central role in cancer both in vigilance for atypia and in the symptomatology of cancers.
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Social support has been shown to serve as a buffer to stress and stress symptomatology (Poehlmann, 2003).
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The findings suggest that adolescents with significant personality disorder symptomatology deserve thorough assessments to determine whether substance abuse or dependence is present.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Symptomatology breaks into symptom ('a sign of illness') and -ology ('study of'), like in psychology. So it also means the study or description of symptoms that doctors and researchers use to understand and explain diseases.