contra-indicantn.
/ˌkɒntrəˈɪndɪkənt/ Medicine.
a. A symptom which makes against a particular diagnosis, or is adverse to the use of a particular remedy or treatment in a disease.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > contra-indication
contra-indicant1623
contra-indication1623
counter-indication1741
1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines iv. 103 The contraindicant is the want of vigour and strength, hindering this worke.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 361 When other Remedies have been tried..and when there is no contra-indicant.
b. transferred. = counter-indication n.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction > paradox or dichotomy
paradox1570
contra-indicant1796
antinomy1802
antinome1864
dichotomy1903
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > contrary evidence > [noun] > instance of
contradictoryc1400
instance1573
contra-indicant1796
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 18 The malady was deep; it was complicated, in the causes and in the symptoms. Throughout it was full of contra-indicants.
1879 H. N. Hudson Hamlet 11 His behaviour has many contra-indicants.
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