symptomn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪm(p)təm/, U.S.

/ˈsɪm(p)təm/

Forms: Middle English synthoma, plural syn-, sinthomata, 1500s symptoma, 1600s syntoma; 1500s–1600s symptome (1500s sinthom, syntone), 1600s symtom(e, simptome, ( syntome, sintum), 1600s– symptom.

Etymology: In early use, in medieval Latin form synthoma , sinthoma , corrupt forms of late Latin symptōma, < Greek σύμπτωμα chance, accident, mischance, disease, < συμπίπτειν to fall together, fall upon, happen to (compare πτῶμα fall, misfortune), < σύν sym- prefix + πίπτειν to fall. In modern use, < French symptome, †sinthome, or directly < Latin symptōma. Compare Italian sintomo, Spanish síntoma, Portuguese symptoma.

1. Pathology. A (bodily or mental) phenomenon, circumstance, or change of condition arising from and accompanying a disease or affection, and constituting an indication or evidence of it; a characteristic sign of some particular disease. Esp., in modern use, a subjective indication, perceptible to the patient, as opposed to an objective one or sign (sign n. 9c).

ΘΚΠ

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

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. ii. g j b/1 Yf the heed be corrupte & dystemperate wyth Synthoma of corrupcion of heed ache.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. iii. g iij/2 Yf dryenesse [of brain] encreasyth wyth heete there..comyth worse Synthomata, euylles & syknesses.

a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 57 Oþer sinthomata i.[e.] perilez as scharp akyng and prikkyng, brynnyng, ychyng, smertyng.

1606 Returne from Pernassus ii. i. sig. C2 I haue considered of the crasis, and syntoma [MS symptoma] of your disease.

1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia i. iv. sig. C2 We shall soone preuent this growing plague, Of pride, and folly, now that she discry The true symptoma of this maladie.

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Those thynges are as symptomes and accydentes of the sayde vlceres, which yf they be present may hynder and let the curacion.1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 26, in Bulwarke of Defence Alienacion of minde, with other sinthoms whiche in this case, are..signes of colde death.1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 180 Counting the damages which the feauer produceth, with those of the Syntones of the euill.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xiii. 94 The symptomes or accidents that ensue upon the eating of this honey, are these.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. v. 362 That symtome of beeing afraid of water; which is incident unto such as be so bitten.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 123 Swelling is a symptome or accident following upon a great wound or hurt in the flesh.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. viii. 429 Feare, sorrow, suspition, bashfulnes, and those other dread Symptomes of body and mind, must needs aggravate this misery.1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 170 If he had not fallen into Symptomes of a Dropsie.1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 10 As when a Physitian from the symptoms of his indisposed Patient, endeavors to find out the causes of his distemper.1692 London Gaz. No. 2801/3 The Small-Pox being come out with all the good simptomes that could be wish'd.a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 345 She perceived in herself y^e sintums of her neer aproching death.1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iii. 81 Symptoms of fever appearing, he was removed.1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 175 His skin was hot, and his pulse strong. These symptoms could be attributed to..inflammation of the brain.1842 W. A. Guy Hooper's Physician's Vade Mecum (new ed.) i. iii. 16 The word sign has not precisely the same meaning as the term symptom, though the two terms are sometimes used without much discrimination... Cough, expectoration, dyspnœa, hectic fever, night sweats, and emaciation, are symptoms of pulmonary consumption, but they are not signs, for each of them may occur in other diseases; but cavernous respiration and pectoriloquy are signs.1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxvii. 361 All the symptoms..exactly agree with those of epilepsy.1869 S. Fenwick Med. Diagnosis i. 2 Diseases are distinguished from each other either by such alterations in the organs themselves, or their secretions, as can be ascertained by the senses of the observer (physical signs); or by changes in the functions of the parts affected (symptoms).1922 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 164 684 The first sign noticed was cyanosis and the first symptom shortness of breath on exertion.

a. gen. A phenomenon or circumstance accompanying some condition, process, feeling, etc., and serving as evidence of it (originally of something evil); a sign or indication of something.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > symptom

accidenta1400

withfall1562

symptom1611

1611 B. Jonson Char. Authour in T. Coryate Crudities sig. b^v He free from all other Symptomes of aspiring, will easily outcary that.

1626 W. Prynne Perpetuitie Regenerate Mans Estate Ep. Ded. It is a sure syntome, that iniquitie doth abound among vs.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 42 Furnisht with language, and many symptomes of education.

1641 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 55 Jalousies and private devisions ware never good simptomes in a State.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. cx Ill symtomes men descry In this thy Glaucis, though the nimble wench So dexterously can pray and prophecy.

1673 (title) The Character of a Coffee-House, with the Symptomes of a Town-Wit.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 The Morn appears, but with the Symptoms of a blowing Day.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 234 They observed many symptoms of a boundless ambition in that young prince.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. v. 455 The carrying trade is the natural effect and symptom of great national wealth.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 108 Nor was it long ere symptoms of his approach began to be heard.

1852 R. B. Mansfield Log Water Lily 12 The river..showed symptoms of rising.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 120 Symptoms of discontent began to appear.

1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. vii. 189 There are some symptoms in the general habits..of society which seem to me somewhat ominous.

b. With negative expressed or implied: A slight, or the least, sign of something; a trace, vestige.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun]

signa1382

stepa1382

ficchingc1384

marka1400

tracesc1400

scentc1422

footstep?a1425

tidinga1440

relicc1475

smell?a1505

stead1513

vestigy1545

print1548

token1555

remnant1560

show1561

mention1564

signification1576

footing?1580

tract1583

remainder1585

vestige1602

wrack1602

engravement1604

footstepping1610

resent1610

ghost1613

impression1613

remark1624

footprint1625

studdle1635

vestigium1644

relict1646

perception1650

vestigiary1651

track1657

symptom1722

signacle1768

ray1773

vestigia1789

footmark1800

souvenir1844

latent1920

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 186 We perceive not the least symptom of cogitation or sense in our tables, chairs, &c.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) I. xi. 171 Europe could scarce amass the symptom of a fleet.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. iii. 40 He..attempted to pass him..without any symptom of recognition.

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 27 Scarce a symptom of spring could as yet be seen.

3. Misused for or confused with symbol. (Cf. symptomatic adj. 4.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol

tokeningc888

tokenc890

print1340

bannerc1380

signingc1390

signala1393

signc1400

similitude?c1400

type?a1500

sacrament1534

resemblance1548

adumbration1552

character1569

picture1580

symbol1590

moral?1594

attribute1600

symbolization1603

allegory1606

emblema1616

hieroglyph1646

simile1682

documentor1684

symptoma1687

monument1728

metaphor1836

presentation1866

symbolisms1876

ideogram1897

picture message1912

figura1959

a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 412 Those Judges..Who, in the symptomes of thy ruin drest, Pronounc't thy Sentence.

Compounds

C1.

symptom-complex n. = symptom-group n.

ΘΚΠ

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

syndrome?1541

symptomatology1798

symptomology1868

symptom-complex1897

symptom-group1897

triad1899

tetralogy1927

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 70 The symptom-complex here presented is..unlike that of any other disease.

symptom-group n. a set of symptoms occurring together and characterizing or constituting a particular disease or affection.

ΘΚΠ

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

syndrome?1541

symptomatology1798

symptomology1868

symptom-complex1897

symptom-group1897

triad1899

tetralogy1927

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 865 Delirium tremens seems to have been first recognised as a symptom group, and separated from acute mania by Dr. Thomas Sutton..in 1813.

C2.

symptom-free adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease

soundc1175

hailc1275

unfect?1504

unsick?1536

sicklessa1547

unafflicted1599

uninfected1625

diseaseless1653

hale1684

undiseased1745

unaffected1793

undisordereda1807

afflictionless1874

symptom-free1962

1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 212/2 Most remain symptom-free, apart from aching calves, thighs and backs.

1980 Recent Adv. in Surg. X. 396 Only about 45 per cent of patients achieve a perfect, symptom-free, Visick grade I result.

Derivatives

ˈsymptom v. rare (transitive) to indicate as by a symptom; loosely, to symbolize.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)]

token971

to stand for ——a1387

presentc1390

discern?a1439

liken?c1450

adumbrate1537

figurate?1548

character1555

shadow1574

shade1591

characterize1594

symbolize1603

hieroglyphic1615

personatea1616

modelizea1628

similize1646

symptom1648

express1649

signaturize1669

image1778

embryo1831

symbol1832

1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 65 To dwell with Dust and Clay, Which Symptome may Mans Low condition.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	symptom
释义	symptomn. Brit. /ˈsɪm(p)təm/, U.S. /ˈsɪm(p)təm/ Forms: Middle English synthoma, plural syn-, sinthomata, 1500s symptoma, 1600s syntoma; 1500s–1600s symptome (1500s sinthom, syntone), 1600s symtom(e, simptome, ( syntome, sintum), 1600s– symptom. Etymology: In early use, in medieval Latin form synthoma , sinthoma , corrupt forms of late Latin symptōma, < Greek σύμπτωμα chance, accident, mischance, disease, < συμπίπτειν to fall together, fall upon, happen to (compare πτῶμα fall, misfortune), < σύν sym- prefix + πίπτειν to fall. In modern use, < French symptome, †sinthome, or directly < Latin symptōma. Compare Italian sintomo, Spanish síntoma, Portuguese symptoma. 1. Pathology. A (bodily or mental) phenomenon, circumstance, or change of condition arising from and accompanying a disease or affection, and constituting an indication or evidence of it; a characteristic sign of some particular disease. Esp., in modern use, a subjective indication, perceptible to the patient, as opposed to an objective one or sign (sign n. 9c). ΘΚΠ 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 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. ii. g j b/1 Yf the heed be corrupte & dystemperate wyth Synthoma of corrupcion of heed ache. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. iii. g iij/2 Yf dryenesse [of brain] encreasyth wyth heete there..comyth worse Synthomata, euylles & syknesses. a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 57 Oþer sinthomata i.[e.] perilez as scharp akyng and prikkyng, brynnyng, ychyng, smertyng. 1606 Returne from Pernassus ii. i. sig. C2 I haue considered of the crasis, and syntoma [MS symptoma] of your disease. 1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia i. iv. sig. C2 We shall soone preuent this growing plague, Of pride, and folly, now that she discry The true symptoma of this maladie. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Aiij^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Those thynges are as symptomes and accydentes of the sayde vlceres, which yf they be present may hynder and let the curacion.1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 26, in Bulwarke of Defence Alienacion of minde, with other sinthoms whiche in this case, are..signes of colde death.1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 180 Counting the damages which the feauer produceth, with those of the Syntones of the euill.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. xiii. 94 The symptomes or accidents that ensue upon the eating of this honey, are these.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. v. 362 That symtome of beeing afraid of water; which is incident unto such as be so bitten.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 123 Swelling is a symptome or accident following upon a great wound or hurt in the flesh.1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. viii. 429 Feare, sorrow, suspition, bashfulnes, and those other dread Symptomes of body and mind, must needs aggravate this misery.1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 170 If he had not fallen into Symptomes of a Dropsie.1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 10 As when a Physitian from the symptoms of his indisposed Patient, endeavors to find out the causes of his distemper.1692 London Gaz. No. 2801/3 The Small-Pox being come out with all the good simptomes that could be wish'd.a1700 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1911) 9 345 She perceived in herself y^e sintums of her neer aproching death.1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iii. 81 Symptoms of fever appearing, he was removed.1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 175 His skin was hot, and his pulse strong. These symptoms could be attributed to..inflammation of the brain.1842 W. A. Guy Hooper's Physician's Vade Mecum (new ed.) i. iii. 16 The word sign has not precisely the same meaning as the term symptom, though the two terms are sometimes used without much discrimination... Cough, expectoration, dyspnœa, hectic fever, night sweats, and emaciation, are symptoms of pulmonary consumption, but they are not signs, for each of them may occur in other diseases; but cavernous respiration and pectoriloquy are signs.1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxvii. 361 All the symptoms..exactly agree with those of epilepsy.1869 S. Fenwick Med. Diagnosis i. 2 Diseases are distinguished from each other either by such alterations in the organs themselves, or their secretions, as can be ascertained by the senses of the observer (physical signs); or by changes in the functions of the parts affected (symptoms).1922 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 164 684 The first sign noticed was cyanosis and the first symptom shortness of breath on exertion. 2. a. gen. A phenomenon or circumstance accompanying some condition, process, feeling, etc., and serving as evidence of it (originally of something evil); a sign or indication of something. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign > symptom accidenta1400 withfall1562 symptom1611 1611 B. Jonson Char. Authour in T. Coryate Crudities sig. b^v He free from all other Symptomes of aspiring, will easily outcary that. 1626 W. Prynne Perpetuitie Regenerate Mans Estate Ep. Ded. It is a sure syntome, that iniquitie doth abound among vs. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 42 Furnisht with language, and many symptomes of education. 1641 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 55 Jalousies and private devisions ware never good simptomes in a State. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. ii. cx Ill symtomes men descry In this thy Glaucis, though the nimble wench So dexterously can pray and prophecy. 1673 (title) The Character of a Coffee-House, with the Symptomes of a Town-Wit. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 13 The Morn appears, but with the Symptoms of a blowing Day. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 234 They observed many symptoms of a boundless ambition in that young prince. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. v. 455 The carrying trade is the natural effect and symptom of great national wealth. View more context for this quotation 1831 W. Scott Count Robert v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 108 Nor was it long ere symptoms of his approach began to be heard. 1852 R. B. Mansfield Log Water Lily 12 The river..showed symptoms of rising. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 120 Symptoms of discontent began to appear. 1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. vii. 189 There are some symptoms in the general habits..of society which seem to me somewhat ominous. b. With negative expressed or implied: A slight, or the least, sign of something; a trace, vestige. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] signa1382 stepa1382 ficchingc1384 marka1400 tracesc1400 scentc1422 footstep?a1425 tidinga1440 relicc1475 smell?a1505 stead1513 vestigy1545 print1548 token1555 remnant1560 show1561 mention1564 signification1576 footing?1580 tract1583 remainder1585 vestige1602 wrack1602 engravement1604 footstepping1610 resent1610 ghost1613 impression1613 remark1624 footprint1625 studdle1635 vestigium1644 relict1646 perception1650 vestigiary1651 track1657 symptom1722 signacle1768 ray1773 vestigia1789 footmark1800 souvenir1844 latent1920 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature ix. 186 We perceive not the least symptom of cogitation or sense in our tables, chairs, &c. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) I. xi. 171 Europe could scarce amass the symptom of a fleet. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. iii. 40 He..attempted to pass him..without any symptom of recognition. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 27 Scarce a symptom of spring could as yet be seen. 3. Misused for or confused with symbol. (Cf. symptomatic adj. 4.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol tokeningc888 tokenc890 print1340 bannerc1380 signingc1390 signala1393 signc1400 similitude?c1400 type?a1500 sacrament1534 resemblance1548 adumbration1552 character1569 picture1580 symbol1590 moral?1594 attribute1600 symbolization1603 allegory1606 emblema1616 hieroglyph1646 simile1682 documentor1684 symptoma1687 monument1728 metaphor1836 presentation1866 symbolisms1876 ideogram1897 picture message1912 figura1959 a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 412 Those Judges..Who, in the symptomes of thy ruin drest, Pronounc't thy Sentence. Compounds C1. symptom-complex n. = symptom-group n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > set of symptoms syndrome?1541 symptomatology1798 symptomology1868 symptom-complex1897 symptom-group1897 triad1899 tetralogy1927 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 70 The symptom-complex here presented is..unlike that of any other disease. symptom-group n. a set of symptoms occurring together and characterizing or constituting a particular disease or affection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > set of symptoms syndrome?1541 symptomatology1798 symptomology1868 symptom-complex1897 symptom-group1897 triad1899 tetralogy1927 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 865 Delirium tremens seems to have been first recognised as a symptom group, and separated from acute mania by Dr. Thomas Sutton..in 1813. C2. symptom-free adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease soundc1175 hailc1275 unfect?1504 unsick?1536 sicklessa1547 unafflicted1599 uninfected1625 diseaseless1653 hale1684 undiseased1745 unaffected1793 undisordereda1807 afflictionless1874 symptom-free1962 1962 Lancet 27 Jan. 212/2 Most remain symptom-free, apart from aching calves, thighs and backs. 1980 Recent Adv. in Surg. X. 396 Only about 45 per cent of patients achieve a perfect, symptom-free, Visick grade I result. Derivatives ˈsymptom v. rare (transitive) to indicate as by a symptom; loosely, to symbolize. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)] token971 to stand for ——a1387 presentc1390 discern?a1439 liken?c1450 adumbrate1537 figurate?1548 character1555 shadow1574 shade1591 characterize1594 symbolize1603 hieroglyphic1615 personatea1616 modelizea1628 similize1646 symptom1648 express1649 signaturize1669 image1778 embryo1831 symbol1832 1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 65 To dwell with Dust and Clay, Which Symptome may Mans Low condition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1398
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