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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
symptomatic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gall
▪ The presence of symptomatic gall stones in eight patients is interesting and is the subject of a more thorough investigation.
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease among women of parity 1 was generally twice that of their nulliparous counterparts.
▪ The introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has changed the approach to the treatment of symptomatic gall stones.
▪ These results suggest that smoking and parity are important risk factors for the development of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women.
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease roughly doubled once a woman had been pregnant.
▪ Women in social classes IV+V had a 25% greater risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease compared with those in social classes I+II.
▪ This study assessed symptomatic gall bladder disease rather the total occurrence of the condition.
patient
▪ Currently, therefore, the only clear recommendation for treatment is in symptomatic patients.
▪ The changes in eicosanoids reflected the clinical symptoms; and we would expect them to be greater in severely symptomatic patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An idiopathic defect of magnesium absorption has been reported as a rare cause of symptomatic hypomagnesemia in infants.
▪ Anthropology has always provided the clearest symptomatic instance, as was foreseen by Rousseau from the outset.
▪ Deskilling is symptomatic of the way in which a worker's labour is taken possession of by the capitalist.
▪ His presence among them was highly symptomatic.
▪ That is symptomatic of our failure sometimes to move on.
▪ This, they felt, was symptomatic of the paper's commendable interest in and support of, the arts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Symptomatic

Symptomatic \Symp`tom*at"ic\, Symptomatical \Symp`tom*at"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. symptomatique, Gr. ? causal.]

  1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.

    Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.
    --Macaulay.

  2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases. [1913 Webster] -- Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
symptomatic

1690s, from French symptomatique or directly from Late Latin symptomaticus, from symptomat-, stem of symptoma (see symptom). General sense of "indicative (of)" is from 1751. Related: Symptomatical (1580s).

Wiktionary
symptomatic

a. 1 (context medicine English) (''of a disease'') Showing symptoms. 2 Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.

WordNet
symptomatic

  1. adj. characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: diagnostic, symptomatic of(p)]

  2. relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms; "symptomatic relief"; "symptomatic treatment"; "a symptomatic classification of diseases"

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Symptomatic (album)

Symptomatic is the second studio album composed and performed by Belgian group Airlock.

Usage examples of "symptomatic".

Carnes looked alarmed, as if what Penner had said was so extreme, it might be symptomatic of dangerous behaviour.

When taken by provers in actual toxic doses the tincture, or the fresh juice, has induced sore throat, feverishness, and a dry, red, hot skin, just as if symptomatic of scarlet fever.

Their diagnostic units would identify the treponema pallidum bacteria, but it had been so many centuries since the last reported case of STD that I doubted if any symptomatic or treatment files even existed.

In this connection it is interesting to notice a case of what might be called acute symptomatic transitory pseudoacromegaly, reported by Potovski: In an insane woman, and without ascertainable cause, there appeared an enlargement of the ankles, wrists, and shoulders, and later of the muscles, with superficial trophic disturbances that gradually disappeared.

Later investigations have shown that, in cases of antimonial poisoning, vomiting does not necessarily get rid of all the poison, and the convulsions in which Auguste Ballet died are symptomatic of poisoning either by morphia or antimony.

It was, Herm knew, symptomatic of all that was wrong in the Federation.

Perle Mesta, were clearly symptomatic of a considerable irritation, even rage.

It's symptomatic of how they see themselves: different, apart, a member of an elite group, above the law.

Inflammatory affections are symptomatic of many fevers and may take various forms.

Some of McHogue's statements that were interpreted by us as symptomatic of megalomania, perhaps as a result of a psychopathological condition due to his own exposure to the effects of the CI modules, may in fact have a basis in reality.

He was in critical shape, his stomach distended as his body began to produce acevidus, the accumulation of toxic fluids symptomatic of late-stage stomach cancer.

And as I said, if it is there, in us, it is symptomatic of the scheme of things.

We are as symptomatic of the scheme of things as the apples are symptomatic of the apple tree or the rose of the rose bush.

This was, he appreciated, symptomatic of a middle-class upbringing on the Springwell Road.

And the breakdown of the political system is symptomatic of ethnic problems.