symptom

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (sumptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpiptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (piptō, “I fall”).

Noun

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
2. Anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

• indication
• manifestation
• sign
• See also Wikisaurus:symptom

Antonyms

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

• symptomatology
• symptomless

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

Translations

indicators and characteristics of the presence of something else

Catalan: símptoma m. Czech: příznak (cs) m. Dutch: symptoom (nl) n., verschijnsel (nl) n. Esperanto: simptomo (eo) Estonian: sümptom (et) Finnish: oire (fi) French: symptôme (fr) m. German: Symptom (de) n. Greek: σύμπτωμα (el) (symptoma) n. Hebrew: תסמין (tɑsmin), סימפטום (simptom) Hindi: lakshan

Hungarian: tünet (hu) Indonesian: gejala (id) Italian: sintomo (it) m. Japanese: 症状 (しょうじょう, shōjō) Malayalam: രോഗലക്ഷണം (roga lakshaNam) Portuguese: sintoma (pt) f. Romanian: simptomă (ro) Russian: признак (ru), симптом (ru) Spanish: síntoma (es) m. Swedish: symptom (sv), symtom (sv) n. Turkish: belirti (tr), semptom (tr), sendrom (tr), araz (tr)

External links

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Czech

Noun

symptom m.

1. symptom

Related terms

• symptomatický