symptomatic

(sĭm'tə-măt'ĭk, sĭmp'-)
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or based on symptoms: symptomatic relief.
2. Constituting a symptom, as of a disease: the rash symptomatic of scarlet fever; a rise in unemployment symptomatic of a weakening economy.

symptomatically symp'to·mat'i·cal·ly adv.

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IN BRIEF: Having characters of a particular disease.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch, U.S. author.

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1. pertaining to or of the nature of a symptom. The word symptom is not used in veterinary medicine because the subjective sensations of our patients are not known to us. However, because there is no comparable word relating to clinical sign, the principal means by which veterinarians arrive at diagnoses, it is customary to use the word symptomatic in this context, that is as pertaining to or in the nature of a clinical sign.
2. indicative (of a particular disease or disorder).
3. exhibiting the symptoms of a particular disease but having a different cause.
4. directed at the allaying of symptoms, as symptomatic treatment.

• s. anthrax — see blackleg.

See words rhyming with "symptomatic."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - symptomatisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
symptomatisch

Français (French)
adj. - symptomatique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - symptomatisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - συμπτωματικός, ενδεικτικός

Italiano (Italian)
sintomatico

idioms:

• be symptomatic of    essere sintomatico di

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sintomático

Русский (Russian)
симптоматический

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sintomático

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - symptomatisk, kännetecknande, karakteristisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
具有征候的, 根据征候的, 症状的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 具有徵候的, 根據徵候的, 症狀的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 징후적인, 조짐의, 전조가 되는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 徴候的な, 前兆となる, 症候に関する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عرضي , دال على‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מסמן (מחלה), סימפטומטי‬

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