The Collaborative International Dictionary
pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]
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(Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
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(Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body.
--Virchow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The science that studies the symptoms of diseases. 2 (context countable English) All the symptoms of a particular disease.
Usage examples of "symptomatology".
Since insanity is chiefly a manifestation of mental or psychological disturbance-a Psychic neurosis-the symptomatology therefore should offer a guidance in ascertaining the etiology, and assist as well in arriving at a solution of the 14 mental pathology.
The study sought to examine the postmurder symptomatology and patterns of bereavement among parents of murdered children.
The experience with pentothal had shown conclusively that symptomatology having to do with specific traumas and conflicts could and did disappear when the trauma was revealed and the conflict explicated clearly to the waking self.
The symptomatology, the discharge and so forth, could go unnoticed for a long time.
Dostoyevsky suffered from an organic illness: an epilepsy with rich and varied symptoms giving evidence of a cerebral process whose most notable symptomatology may be placed in the context of temporal epilepsy.
Neck and arm cramps, for instance, can be employed for the purpose of hysterical attacks, where the patient does not have the typical symptomatology of hysteria at her disposal.