symptom
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
— Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.
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cardinal symptom
hemisymptom
intersymptom
monosodium glutamate symptom complex
monosymptom
MSG symptom complex
multisymptom
neurosymptom
postsymptom
Pratt's symptom
rational symptom
somatic symptom disorder
subsymptom
symptomatology
symptomize
symptom journal
symptomless
symptomlike
symptomology
Uhthoff's symptom
withdrawal symptom
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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