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n. A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else: "The affair is a symptom of a global marital disturbance; it is not the disturbance itself” ( Maggie Scarf). See Synonyms at sign.

n. A sign or an indication of disorder or disease, especially when experienced by an individual as a change from normal function, sensation, or appearance.

n. A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

n. Anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

n. Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease.

n. A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else.

n. One of the departures from normal function or form which a disease presents, especially one of the more evident of such departures.

n. Any sign or indication; that which indicates the existence of something else.

n. paralysis of the facial muscles for the automatic movements of expression, with retention of the power of voluntary motion.

n. the occurrence of a paroxysm when the motor nerve of a limb is compressed in tetany.

n. (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

n. anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

"The word "symptom" comes from a Greek word meaning "accident, misfortune, that which befalls": certainly an unhealthy attitude toward a choice that can be the most joyous event of a person's life."

cause   

indicant    indication   

stellwag's symptom    rumpf's symptom    active symptoms    assident    signal symptom    accessory symptoms    consecutive symptoms    rational symptoms    equivocal symptom    romberg's symptom   

asymptomatic    symptomatic    asymptote   

symptomatology    symptomless   

sign    token    indication    mark    note    prognostic    manifestation   

sign    manifestation    indication    disorder    sensation    disturbance    danger    risk    fever    condition