symptom

From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “I fall”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm(p)təm/

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
   • 2009, Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

     Some people see birth outside of marriage as a social problem—a sign of a breakdown in the traditional family and a symptom of moral decay.

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

• symptomatology
• symptomless

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Via German Symptom[1] from Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “I fall”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪmptom/

symptom m

1. symptom

• symptomatický

symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)

1. symptom

• symptomfri

• symptomatisk

• “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)

1. symptom

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)

1. symptom

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɨm.ptɔm/

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symptom m inan

1. symptom