Medical Dictionary

semiotic

noun se·mi·ot·ic \-ˈät-ik\
plural semiotics

Medical Definition of SEMIOTIC

:  a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics
semiotic adjective

Variants of SEMIOTIC

se·mi·ot·ic or se·mi·ot·ics \-iks\

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