symptom

See also Symptom

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪm(p)təm/

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

• Arabic: عرض (ar) (ʿáraḍ) m
• Asturian: síntoma (ast) m
• Catalan: símptoma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 症狀 (cmn), 症状 (cmn) (zhèngzhuàng)

• Czech: příznak (cs) m
• Dutch: symptoom (nl) n, verschijnsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: simptomo (eo)
• Estonian: sümptom (et)
• Finnish: oire (fi)
• French: symptôme (fr) m
• Galician: síntoma (gl) m
• German: Symptom (de) n
• Greek: σύμπτωμα (el) (sýmptoma) n
• Hebrew: תסמין (he) (tɑsmin) m, סימפטום (he) (simptom) m
• Hindi: लक्षण (hi) (lakṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: tünet (hu)

• Indonesian: gejala (id)
• Italian: sintomo (it) m
• Japanese: 症状 (ja) (しょうじょう, shōjō)
• Korean: 증상 (ko) (jeungsang) (症狀 (ko))
• Latvian: simptoms (lv) m
• Malayalam: രോഗലക്ഷണം (ml) (roga lakshaNam)
• Persian: سَمپتوم (fa) (samptōm), اثر (fa) (asar)
• Polish: symptom (pl) m
• Portuguese: sintoma (pt) f
• Romanian: simptomă (ro)
• Russian: признак (ru) (príznak) m, симптом (ru) (simptóm) m
• Spanish: síntoma (es) m
• Swedish: symptom (sv), symtom (sv) n
• Turkish: belirti (tr), semptom (tr), sendrom (tr), araz (tr)
• Vietnamese: triệu chứng (vi)

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

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Polish

Pronunciation

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Noun

symptom m

1. symptom

Declension

    declension of symptom

	singular	plural
nominative	symptom	symptomy
genitive	symptomu	symptomów
dative	symptomowi	symptomom
accusative	symptom	symptomy
instrumental	symptomem	symptomami
locative	symptomie	symptomach
vocative	symptomie	symptomy