What's the difference between semiology and symptomatology?

Semiology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science or art of signs.
  • (n.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
  • (n.) The art of using signs in signaling.
  • () Alt. of Semiological

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (2) After a review of the semiology and organization of normal sleep, the neuronal structures presently accepted as participating in sleep mechanisms are discussed.
  • (3) Hours later, he presented clinical brain stem semiology.
  • (4) From a semiological point of view, they may be: (i) isolated, (ii) associated with neurological symptoms (ophtalmoplegia, hemiplegia, hemianesthesia...).
  • (5) In spite of the diversity of the clinical manifestations of the peripheral neuropathy, the semiologically different types of essential tremor and the electrophysiological data, it is concluded that patients who develop a peripheral neuropathy on a familial basis and who exhibit clinical features of similar character, suffer from a common type of pathological disorder.
  • (6) The causes and semiological formulae of these syndromes are varied, but they are all characterized by anterograde amnesia combined with a retrograde amnesic disorder and by elective damage of episodic and declarative memories, the semantic and procedural memories, as well as intelligence, being usually spared.
  • (7) The lymphangitic carcinomatosis semiology is best demonstrated with HR-CT-Technic.
  • (8) If the term psychopathology could be considered identical to psychiatric semiology, the words signs and symptoms go above the descriptive stade: the greek name sumptôma contains sun (with) and piptein (appear), while the word sign is an intellectual deduction of observed symptoms.
  • (9) The authors describe the ultrasonographic anatomy and semiology of allowing detection of the main types of fetal non-obstructive uropathies.
  • (10) Results of nuclear magnetic resonance exploration in a patient with chronic thrombosis of main pulmonary arteries are used to outline an elementary semiology in agreement with current documented data.
  • (11) MRI signal was analyzed in correlation with surgical findings in order to define the semiology of nasal and sinuses polyps.
  • (12) The semiological findings were similar in all 3 cases, and were distinguished by the association of signs eveking lesions of the largest myelinated nerves fibers to the posterior rami with lesions in the muscles.
  • (13) This paper handles with semiological and physiopathological aspects in relation with conversion and anosognosia symptoms.
  • (14) A survey was conducted to determine the frequency and semiological characteristics of degenerative spinal disease in patients attending a hospital rheumatology outpatient clinic in Lomé, Togo.
  • (15) The correlation between the focus based on semiology and that based on intracranial electrographic recording and surgical excision was excellent in five, good in three.
  • (16) The authors stress the enormous gap between the richness of foetal semiology and the poverty of the clinical deductions at the beginning and at the end of pregnancy.
  • (17) A thymectomy resulted in prompt and complete remission of semiologies of both myasthenia gravis and AASN.
  • (18) The method proposes various qualifications for chronologic and semiologic criteria but does not define them.
  • (19) Using the results of evaluations of very young children, a specific semiology (communication disorders) can be developed.
  • (20) After describing the normal images and the semiology of the major diseases for which this technique can be used, the author reviews the appearance of the main regional osteoarticular lesions (shoulder, hip, knee, extremities, etc.

Symptomatology


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (2) Structural changes in lymph nodes are analysed in the elaboration of basic terms for lymphographic symptomatology.
  • (3) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (4) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
  • (5) Computed tomographic (CT) findings in 14 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are correlated with clinical symptomatology.
  • (6) Proper approach to the genito-urinary tract abnormalities symptomatology accompanied with proper diagnosis and management may significantly lower the incidence of severe renal failure.
  • (7) On account of symptomatological and pathogenetical similarities with the dystrophy of Sudeck and the causalgic state, it appears that the Q.S.
  • (8) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
  • (9) Within the depressed group ear asymmetry varied according to symptomatology; withdrawal-retardation was associated with a lack of asymmetry and anxiety with a normal right ear advantage.
  • (10) Comments on the symptomatology, exploratory means and differential diagnosis with other sinusal or orbital conditions.
  • (11) The etiopathogenesis, symptomatology and treatment were described.
  • (12) Compared with 97 Libyan schizophrenics who exhibited poor symptomatology, 100 Maltese cases were similar to those of other European countries.
  • (13) He uses as a basis the CDC classification of HIV infections and explains on different models of clinical situations mechanisms which lead to haematological, neurological, immunological, pneumological, gastroenterological, oncological and rheumatological symptomatology.
  • (14) There was not any single item or any cluster of depressive symptomatology consistently related to AbDST among all diagnostic categories.
  • (15) The presence of urinary-bladder-stones was verified cystoscopically and the clinical symptomatology ceased promptly after removal of the concrements.
  • (16) It is also useful to epidemiologists who, for example, may be interested in estimating the prevalence of depression; it is important to know that they must count some cases of CBS's along with cases of depression with a more typically Western symptomatology.
  • (17) In all cases CT, both in the immediate post-traumatic phase and later on, allowed both an early diagnosis and the follow-up of hemorrhagic lesions and late complications, even in absence of significant neurologic symptomatology; medical replacement treatment and neurosurgery, when needed, allowed a positive resolution of all cases.
  • (18) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
  • (19) No relation was found between new symptomatology and the type of hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or the administration of perioperative antibiotics.
  • (20) Distinguishing symptomatology, anamnesis, family history, therapeutics, as well as prognosis, are discussed.

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