symptom

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.
    — The doctor told that his coughing and sneezing was the symptom of standing for too long in the rain.
  2. A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable. figuratively
    — Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.

词形变化

symptoms plural

词源

From Middle English sinthoma, from Medieval Latin sinthoma, altered by Late Latin symptoma, from Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of συμπίπτω (sumpíptō, “Ι befall”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”). See also syn-, -oma, -ome.
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