Pathognomonic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Characteristic or symptomatic of a particular disease or condition.
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  • adj. diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In medicine, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; hence, belonging to or inseparable from a disease, being found in it and in no other; characteristic: as, pathognomonic symptoms.
    • Word Usage
    "Descriptions of this virus is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertsons circle of friends, Dr. Horowitz charges."
    Antonym
    assident   
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