Definition of symptom

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Symptom (n.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited..

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Pleuritical :: Pleuritical (a.) Of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms..
Initial :: Initial (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease..
Tyrotoxicon :: Tyrotoxicon (n.) A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol..
Gravel :: Gravel (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom..
Diagnostic :: Diagnostic (n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Measles :: Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola..
Syn- :: Symptomatology (n.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Diagnostics :: Diagnostics (n.) That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
Idiopathical :: Idiopathical (a.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic..
Aura :: Aura (n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics..
Scorbutical :: Scorbutical (a.) Of or pertaining to scurvy; of the nature of, or resembling, scurvy; diseased with scurvy; as, a scorbutic person; scorbutic complaints or symptoms..
Symptomatic :: Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue..
Black Vomit :: Black vomit () A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
Grudge :: Grudge (n.) Slight symptom of disease.
Eclampsia :: Eclampsia (n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions..
Typhomalarial :: Typhomalarial (a.) Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever..
Cough :: Cough (v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease..
Cholaemaa :: Cholaemaa (n.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood..
Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..
Acritical :: Acritical (a.) Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess..
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