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symptomatic, a. (n.)|sɪmptəˈmætɪk|
[ad. F. symptomatique or late L. symptōmāticus (cf. Gr. συµπτωµατικός exposed to chance), f. symptōmat-, symptōma symptom: see -ic.]
1. Path. 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 (opp. to idiopathic).
1698Floyer Asthma iii. (1717) 110, I shall next describe those Symptomatic Asthma's, which succeed Cephalic Diseases. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 64 Fevers..accompanied with a Symptomatic Flux of the Belly. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. xiii, If his fever should prove more than symptomatic, it would be impossible to save him. 1802Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) III. 166 This will give what doctors call a symptomatic indication. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 245 This..is..sometimes denominated symptomatic amaurosis, being the mere effect of another disease, which is the primary one. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 451 The symptomatic dropsy may accompany almost every disease. 1877F. 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.
1814L. Hunt Feast Poets Notes (1815) 100 Symptomatic of a weak state of stomach. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. x, A species of dotage of the mind, which is sometimes found concomitant with and symptomatic of this disorder. 1874Carpenter Mental Phys. i. iv. (1879) 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.
1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 321 The symptomatic art..the learned faculty of medicine have an undoubted right to. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. ix. 101 The mere symptomatic practitioner would be unable to acquire anything more than a loose and undefined notion. Ibid. 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.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. xc. 84 The friendship..had of late suffered several symptomatic shocks. 1803Edin. Rev. Jan. 497 Symptomatic of rather a rancourous spirit of controversy. 1837Hallam Lit. Eur. I. i. i. §80 He shows..a regard to profane literature, unusual in the darker ages, and symptomatic of a more liberal taste. 1847J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 326 The symptomatic smoke has puffed up from the social volcano. 1878C. J. Vaughan Earnest Words 120 All that remains is symptomatic—this is essential.
¶ Misused for or confused with symbolic or emblematic. (Cf. symptom ¶ .)
1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xlviii, With ashes (or hair-powder) on their heads, symptomatic of their great humility. 1881Manch. 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 pl. symptomatics |sɪmptəˈmætɪks| = symptomatology.
1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlvi. (1804) 315 Wagtail..harangued upon prognostics, diagnostics, symptomatics. 1830–2Carleton Traits (1842) I. 135 The differential symptomatics between a Party Fight..and one between two Roman Catholic Factions.
Add:[A.] 4. Med. Manifesting a symptom or symptoms of any (or of a particular) disease or disorder.
1966Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXXII. 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. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 37/2 Cut-off points based on trials among symptomatic patients may differ from those appropriate to members of the general population. 1988Amer. Jrnl. Preventive Med. IV. 31/2 The study group..is a low-risk group that is well-off socioeconomically, symptomatic but relatively healthy, and around retirement age. |