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symptomatic of

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, symptomatic of(p)]

Usage examples of "symptomatic of".

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.

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.

She had come to believe that what was happening in Menzoberranzan might be symptomatic of the whole world, of the whole multiverse, and that it was quite beyond her understanding or her control.

What I observed about her restlessness and her inattentiveness was that they're symptomatic of her primary disability.

I would guess his brash manner and warped humor were symptomatic of an instability that has brought him to this misfortune.

He refused to continue the legacy of executions which had been symptomatic of his father's regime.