Semiography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Semiography is a noun meaning (medicine) A description of the signs of disease.
Meaning
(medicine) A description of the signs of disease.
More Meanings
- (linguistics, semiotics) A system of symbolic notation, especially (but not always) as opposed to phonetic notation.
- (more specifically) A system of musical notation.
- The study of symbolic systems or of a particular symbolic system.
Example Sentences
Semiography may be very useful for studies of landscape pathology.
In other words, the semiography of the disorder connotes a criminal act.
The fact that the semiography of French is specific and complex is due to its history, which, as we mentioned at the beginning, sets it apart from all the other Romance languages.
Metallov further assumed that Græco-Syrian semiography came to Russia through Mt. Athos; but as we mentioned earlier, Athos at that time was still relatively young as a monastic state, although it was inhabited by monks of various countries.
Word Forms
- semiographies
- semeiography
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semiology, semiotics, nosography, semeiology, symptomatology, epidemiography.
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