semiology

From New Latin semaeologia, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”) + -logia (“-logy”).

semiology (countable and uncountable, plural semiologies)

1. Semiotics, the study of signs.
2. (dated) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology.
3. (dated) The art of using signs in signalling.
4. The symptom expression of an epileptic seizure.

• semiotics

• symbology

• oligosemy