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Symptomatic

adjective

Characteristic or indicative of a disease. Synonym: diagnostic. "A rash symptomatic of scarlet fever" , "Symptomatic of insanity" , "A rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown"

Relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms. "Symptomatic treatment" , "A symptomatic classification of diseases"

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"Symptomatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... occurs in syringomyelia. Most of the cases that have been reported as a combination of these two diseases are now thought to be only a syringomyelia. A recent case is reported by Marie. 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. ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... thoughts intent, I took my homeward way. The old turrets of the house rose before me, more distressingly symptomatic of poverty and decay than ever. I crossed the noble quadrangle, which was overgrown with grass, and betook myself to the great dark-wainscoted old library, utterly disgusted at the folly or extravagance of my ancestors, in having ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

Words linked to "Symptomatic" : symptom, characteristic, diagnostic