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symptom

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, re-Latinized from sinthoma (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin sinthoma "symptom of a disease," altered from Late Latin symptoma , from Greek symptoma "a happening, accident, disease," from stem of sympiptein "to befall, happen; coincide, fall together," ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash. 2 A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Symptom refers to a medical indication of an illness.

Usage examples of symptom.

There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

But when this period arrives and the menstrual discharge takes place into the vagina, the female will suffer from the retention and accumulation of this secretion, and ultimately a tumor or a protrusion of the membrane which closes the vagina will occur, giving rise to severe pain and other serious symptoms.

Even in this somewhat advanced stage of the disease, when the symptoms are so apparent, many cases are shamefully neglected because an ignorant adviser says it is nothing serious and that the patient will outgrow it.

To control this disagreeable symptom, the candidates for both species of afflatus used to come to their meetings provided with napkins and rollers with which to bind their middles, and prevent the supervening inflation.

Affront Old Guard were slightly ashamed their civilisation had a Diplomatic service at all and so tried to compensate for what they were worried might look to other species suspiciously like a symptom of weakness by ensuring that only the most aggressive and xenophobic Affronters became diplomats, to forestall anybody forming the dangerously preposterous idea the Affront were going soft.

Homeopathy deals with the physical personality, the symptoms put together making up the physical personality, while allopathy goes by diagnosis which does not consider the personality.

A strange case turned up at the surgery today, it might be a variant of psychic blindness or amaurosis, but there appears to be no evidence of any such symptoms ever having been established, What are these illnesses, amaurosis and that other thing, his wife asked him.

The young Amphora scientist snuck a glance at her, torn between his fear of Jockey and his interest in her symptoms.

He was still speaking analytically, like a medically trained cancer victim describing his own terminal symptoms.

Aphasia, amnesia, aphonia--and often anosmia and apnoea--are symptoms of hysteria.

One of the most common symptoms of anteversion is a frequent desire to urinate, in consequence of the pressure of the uterus upon the bladder.

Enlargement of the uterus, the womb, or displacements of that organ, as prolapsus, or anteversion, and all capable of producing symptoms of bladder disease.

You could not get that information from the family doctor because the doctor had never been taught about the symptoms and signs of anthrax disease.

In the inhalational anthrax cases following September 11, the average time from exposure to the bacteria to the onset of symptoms was four days.

Even those of us who have not been affected so far are beginning to feel the early symptoms of the antibody attack.