clinology

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noun

The study of the deterioration or retrogression of an organism after maturity, especially, the correspondance of the form or function of one organism that has deteriorated due to age with the undeteriorated mature stages of degraded organisms from the same group.

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nounclinology (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablemedicineThe study of the deterioration or retrogression of an organism after maturity, especially, the correspondance of the form or function of one organism that has deteriorated due to age with the undeteriorated mature stages of degraded organisms from the same group.

    Before proceeding to do so, however, it is advisable for me to make a few prefatory remarks on the clinology of biliary concretions.

    1889, “On Sounding for Gall-Stones”, in Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs, page 854
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    And yet, slowly but surely, the physical energies do seem to be taking their place in the clinology of an increasing number of disorders.

    1933, Charles Raymond Wiley, American Journal of Physical Therapy, volume 10, number 6

    In former days, when the stomach held a place of great prominence in our system of clinology, it was almost a clinical axiom that any disturbance in the epigastrium or abdomen was attributable to the stomach.

    1927, Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, volume 55

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