单词 | symptomatic |
释义 | symptomaticadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Pathology. Of the nature of, or constituting, a symptom of disease; spec. applied to a secondary disease or morbid state arising from and accompanying a primary one (opposed to idiopathic). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] indicatory1583 symptomatical1586 semiotical1588 pathognomonic1625 semiotic1625 pathognomonical1638 pathognomical1640 symptomical1656 pathognomic1684 symptomatic1698 assident1753 symptomatic1814 1698 J. Floyer Treat. Asthma (1717) iii. 110 I shall next describe those Symptomatic Asthma's, which succeed Cephalic Diseases. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 64 Fevers..accompanied with a Symptomatic Flux of the Belly. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. xii. 75 If his Fever should prove more than Symptomatick, it would be impossible to save him. View more context for this quotation 1802 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 166 This will give what doctors call a symptomatic indication. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 245 This..is..sometimes denominated symptomatic amaurosis, being the mere effect of another disease, which is the primary one. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 451 The symptomatic dropsy may accompany almost every disease. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 296 Symptomatic Parotitis differs from the idiopathic form in its great tendency to end in suppuration. b. Const. of. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] indicatory1583 symptomatical1586 semiotical1588 pathognomonic1625 semiotic1625 pathognomonical1638 pathognomical1640 symptomical1656 pathognomic1684 symptomatic1698 assident1753 symptomatic1814 1814 L. Hunt Feast of Poets 100 Symptomatic of a weak state of stomach. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous iv, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 126 A species of dotage of the mind, which is sometimes found concomitant with and symptomatic of this disorder. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. iv. 156 The flashes of light which are symptomatic of disease of the Retina or of the Optic nerve. 2. Relating to or concerned with symptoms. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [adjective] > study of symptoms symptomatic1767 semiological1839 symptomatological1859 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 321 The symptomatic art..the learned faculty of medicine have an undoubted right to. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 101 The mere symptomatic practitioner would be unable to acquire anything more than a loose and undefined notion. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 758 [Epilepsy] received from our ancestors the apt symptomatic name of the ‘falling-evil’ or ‘falling-sickness’. 3. gen. That is a symptom of something; accompanying and indicating some condition, quality, etc.; characteristic and indicative of. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [adjective] > indicating or indicative of > symptomatic symptomatical1629 reflective1640 symptomatic1751 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xcviii. 66 The friendship..had of late suffered several symptomatic shocks. 1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 497 Symptomatic of rather a rancourous spirit of controversy. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 96 He..shows..a regard to profane literature, unusual in the darker ages, and symptomatic of a more liberal taste. 1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. vi. 102 The symptomatic smoke has puffed up from the social volcano. 1878 C. J. Vaughan Earnest Words 120 All that remains is symptomatic—this is essential. 4. Misused for or confused with symbolic or emblematic. (Cf. symptom n. 3.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [adjective] figural?a1500 sacramental1534 shadowing1579 hieroglyphical1581 similitudinary1581 morala1616 symbolical1620 characterical1634 shadowy1641 emblematical1644 emblematic1645 hieroglyphic1647 symbolic1681 emblematizing1751 tokening1820 imagerial1837 twi-necked1840 personating1851 symptomatic1853 symbolizing1909 uroboric1958 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlviii. 459 With ashes (or hair-powder) on their heads, symptomatic of their great humility. 1881 Manch. Guard. 27 Jan. [He] referred to the right hon. gentleman's red stockings as being ‘symptomatic of the seas of gore’ through which the Government meant to wade in Ireland. B. n. in plural. symptomatics n. /sɪmptəˈmætɪks/ = symptomatology n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > study of disease > [noun] > study or description of symptoms spasmology1681 symptomatography1736 symptomatics1748 symptomatology1804 pathognomy1822 semiology1839 semiography1853 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlvi. 102 Wagtail..harangued upon prognostics, diagnostics, symptomatics. 1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 254 The differential symptomatics between a Party Fight..and one between two Roman Catholic Factions. Draft additions 1993 Medicine. Manifesting a symptom or symptoms of any (or of a particular) disease or disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [adjective] > manifesting symptoms symptomatic1966 1966 Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry 122 1240/1 The psychiatrist evaluating a symptomatic adolescent faces the problem of differentiating between the clinical manifestations of psychiatric illness which requires treatment and of adolescent turmoil which may subside with growth. 1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 37/2 Cut-off points based on trials among symptomatic patients may differ from those appropriate to members of the general population. 1988 Amer. Jrnl. Preventive Med. 4 31/2 The study group..is a low-risk group that is well-off socioeconomically, symptomatic but relatively healthy, and around retirement age. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1698 |
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