Medical Term:
semantics
Pronunciation: sĕ-man′tiks
Definition:
- The study of the significance and development of the meaning of words.
- The study concerned with the relations between signs and their referents; the relations between the signs of a system; and human behavioral reaction to signs, including unconscious attitudes, influences of social institutions, and epistemologic and linguistic assumptions.
[G. sēmainō, to show]
