Definition of Semeiology

1. n. The science or art of signs.

Definition of Semeiology

1. [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Semeiology

1. The science or art of signs. The art of using signs in signaling. Specifically: The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology. Origin: Gr. Shmeion, a mark, a sign. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semeiology

semblant
semblants
semblative
semblaunce
semblaunt
semble
sembled
sembles
sembling
seme
semee
semeed
semeia
semeiography
semeiologies
semeiology (current term)
semeion
semeiotic
semeiotics
semele
semelfactive
semelfactive aspect
semelfactivity
semelincident
semelparity
semelparous
sememe
sememes
sememic

Literary usage of Semeiology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"Hie semeiology of the Human Urine, especially designed for the purposes of the Physician, containing a description of the signs indicated by the altered ..."

2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of children by David Francis Condie (1853)
"semeiology OF THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. THE detection and diagnosis of disease in the infant is based, the same as in the adult, upon a careful ..."

3. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1838)
"Outlines of Special semeiology. By Dr. HE SUCKOW.—Jena, 1838. 4to. pp. 296. THE first of the above works, the only one deserving special notice in this ..."

4. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery edited by Lunsford Pitts Yandell, Theodore Stout Bell (1844)
"Principles of Medicine: comprising general Pathology and Therapeutics, and a brief general view of Etiology, Nosology, semeiology, Diagnosis, and Prognosis. ..."

5. A Practical treatise on fractures and dislocations by Frank Hastings Hamilton (1866)
"GENERAL semeiology AND DIAGNOSIS. Fractures occurring from violence inflicted upon the child by the accoucheur, or from contractions of the neck of the womb ..."

6. The Ear and its diseases by Albert Alexander Gray (1910)
"CHAPTER V GENERAL semeiology AND THERAPEUTICS ... UNDER the term semeiology are included those symptoms of disease which lead a patient to seek relief at ..."

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