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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.
- 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.
- Symptomatic - a. - Alt. of Symptomatical
- Symptomatical - a. - Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
- Symptomatical - a. - According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.
- Symptomatology - n. - The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
- Cachinnation - n. - Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
- Phthisicky - a. - Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
- Contraindication - n. - An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.
- Heartburn - n. - An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
- Tetanus - n. - A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
- Preataxic - a. - Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
- 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.
- Turn - n. - A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
- Indication - n. - Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
- Cough - v. i. - The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
- Cardialgy - n. - A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.
- Diagnostic - n. - The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
- Floccillation - n. - A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
- Neuralgia - n. - A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
- Eclampsia - n. - A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
- Instance - n. - A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
- Prognostic - a. - A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
- Hydrophobia - n. - An abnormal dread of water, said to be a symptom of canine madness; hence:
- Grudge - n. - Slight symptom of disease.
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