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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024symp•tom /ˈsɪmptəm/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Pathologya physical condition that arises from and accompanies a particular disorder and serves as an indication of it:The symptoms of this flu are aching joints, high fever, and stomach pains.
- any action, condition, or circumstance that arises from or accompanies something else and serves as evidence of it:the symptoms of economic inflation.
symp•to•mat•ic,/ˌsɪmptəˈmætɪk/USA pronunciation ; adj. See sym-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024symp•tom (simp′təm),USA pronunciation n. - any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
- a sign or indication of something.
- Pathologya phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
- Greek sýmptōma occurrence, that which falls together with something, equivalent. to sym- sym- + ptō- (variant stem of píptein to fall) + -ma noun, nominal suffix of result
- Late Latin symptōma
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged signal, token, mark.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: symptom /ˈsɪmptəm/ n - any sensation or change in bodily function experienced by a patient that is associated with a particular disease
- any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and regarded as evidence of its existence; indication
Etymology: 16th Century: from Late Latin symptōma, from Greek sumptōma chance, from sumpiptein to occur, from syn- + piptein to fall |