â January 10, 2005. What you describe sounds like a common condition called peripheral neuropathy, which stems from damage to the peripheral nerves that branch out through the arms, legs, fingers and toes. The symptoms include weakness, numbness, tingling and burning or painful sensation. Peripheral neuropathy is often due to diabetes but can occur as a result of toxic trauma (such as chemotherapy) or mechanical injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
semantics. 1. the study of the meaning of words. 2. the study of linguistic development by examining and classifying changes in meaning. Also called semasiology, sematology, semology. â semanticist, n. â semantic, adj.
In programming language theory, semantics is the field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages. Denotational semantics, whereby each phrase in the language is interpreted as a denotation, i.e. a conceptual meaning that can be thought of abstractly. 2  Such denotations are often mathematical objects inhabiting a mathematical space, but it is not a requirement that they should be so.