semiography

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A description of the signs of disease.

   “The most perplexing part of the semiography and symptomatology is this, that these purulent collections cause almost no uneasy feelings, till by their size they induce distension or painful stretching of the organ, or pressure or tension of some of the surrounding parts.”

2. isim A system of symbolic notation, especially (but not always) as opposed to phonetic notation.

   “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.”

3. isim A system of musical notation.

   “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.”

4. isim The study of symbolic systems or of a particular symbolic system.

   “Abundant graphic documentation of Frutiger's work, together with the books by Shepherd and Dreyfus, serve as the basis for modern comprehension of the principles of semiography.”