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The art of expressing by symbols.

toms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Contemporaneous chronology.

That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.

That branch of medicine which treats of syphilis.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -- The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.…

Same as Taxonomy.

Technology. [R.]

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.…

The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif. (Biol.),

That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced by a German structure of sentence, and a terminology altogether new. De Quincey.

Terminology. [R.]

The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology. [R.]

A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.

exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life." Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of "science of God"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. Brit.). Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the…

Therapeutios.