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Associated words: symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography, pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis. synopsis, n. syllabus, compendium, abstract, summary, epitome, digest. system, n. method, order.

Under our first head, we treat of the static and of gesture in general; under our second, of the dynamic, and of gesture in particular; and finally, under our third head, of the semeiotic, with an exposition of the laws of gesture.

The semeiotic is the science of signs, and hence the science of the form of gesture.

Thus, when we know the sum of movements possible to an organ, when we know the sense of it, we arrive at that semeiotic through which the reason of a form is perfectly given.

The semeiotic gives the reason of movements, and has for its object the careful examination of inflections, attitudes and types.