pathognomonicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌpaθəɡnəˈmɒnɪk/, U.S.

/pəˌθɑɡnəˈmɑnɪk/,

/ˌpæθəɡnəˈmɑnɪk/

Forms: 1600s pathognomonicke, 1600s– pathognomonic, 1700s–1800s pathognomonick.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Or (iii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: French pathognomonique; Latin pathognomonicus; Greek παθογνωμονικός.

Etymology: < either French pathognomonique (1579 in Middle French), or post-classical Latin pathognomonicus (16th cent. in Paracelsus), or their etymon Hellenistic Greek παθογνωμονικός indicating a particular disease (Galen) < παθο- patho- comb. form + ancient Greek γνωμονικός (see nosognomonic adj.).

Medicine.

A. adj.

Designating a sign or symptom, or (later) a laboratory finding, by which a disease may be diagnosed; specifically characteristic or indicative of a particular disease or disorder. With of, for.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective]

indicatory1583

symptomatical1586

semiotical1588

pathognomonic1625

semiotic1625

pathognomonical1638

pathognomical1640

symptomical1656

pathognomic1684

symptomatic1698

assident1753

symptomatic1814

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 19 The..absolute knowledge of the disease, by meanes of the signes Pathognomonicke, proper and peculiar to euery disease.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 720 This..hath no Pathognomonic Sign by which it is distinguish'd from other Fevers besides its Duration.

1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 613 It hath been thought, that a quick pulse is so essential..as to be a pathognomonic symptom of it.

1851 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 212 The pathognomonic symptoms of the complaint.

1859 Proc. Royal Soc. 10 p. iv His detection of the albuminous state of the urine as pathognomonic of disease of that organ.

1932 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 118 145 The fluid..shows changes of a chemical nature which are often pathognomonic.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) viii. 91 The escape of blood, however, is not pathognomonic of a fracture of the middle fossa.

1993 S. J. Ettinger Pocket Compan. Textbk. Vet. Internal Med. cxiv. 740 The leukogram is seldom pathognomonic for a given disease.

B. n.

A pathognomonic sign or symptom. Also in extended use. Usually in plural. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun]

entacha1375

symptom1398

accidenta1400

showerc1400

prognostic?a1425

grudgingc1440

prognosticationc1475

grudge1562

symptomates1583

grutchinga1637

annotation1644

pathognomic1683

pathognomonic1704

prognosis1706

modality1911

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 14 Ioyne..as most pregnant..testimonies of the disease, these inseparable accidents of the same, commonly called pathognomonica.]

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pathognomonick, a Term in the Art of Medicine, is a proper inseparate Sign [etc.].

1705 W. Wotton Reflections (ed. 3) 327 They are more accurate in describing the Pathognomonics, and more than just and nice in distinguishing the Species of Tumors and Ulcers, than our more refined Moderns are.

1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 87 Those inseparable Symptoms we call its Pathognomonics or distinguishing Characters.

1870 H. T. Craven Milky White i. 6 I've been reading up the pathognomonicks of the human ear—for it's my opinion there's a good deal to be done in cases of deafness.

1926 G. Thomas in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning 171 The dots..represent the monolinguist's representation of the pathognomonics of his ‘mizry’.

1962 P. Scott Birds of Paradise iii. ii. 162 Night after night he talked across the narrow space between our beds, describing the pathognomonics of the diseases whose progress we tried to arrest.

Derivatives

† pathognomonical adj. Obsolete rare = sense A.

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