Definition of symptom

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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..

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Cardialgy :: 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..
Homeopathy :: Homeopathy (n.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy..
Cachinnation :: Cachinnation (n.) Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
Acritical :: Acritical (a.) Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess..
Black Vomit :: Black vomit () A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
Indication :: Indication (n.) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies..
Contraindicate :: Contraindicate (v. t.) To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require..
Bilious :: Bilious (a.) Disordered in respect to the bile; troubled with an excess of bile; as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms..
Assident :: Assident (a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms..
Preataxic :: Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Asystolism :: Asystolism (n.) The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.
Symptomatical :: Symptomatical (a.) Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
Neuralgia :: 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..
Pathognomonic :: Pathognomonic (a.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom..
Mortifying :: Mortifying (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh..
Coindication :: Coindication (n.) One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease..
Contraindication :: Contraindication (n.) An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.
Premonitory :: Premonitory (a.) Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease..
Pneumonic :: Pneumonic (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms..
Hydrophobic :: Hydrophobic (a.) Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison..
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