Symptom

Noun

 * 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.
 * 2) Anything that indicates, or is characteristic of,  the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

 * indication
 * manifestation
 * sign
 * See also Thesaurus:symptom

Antonyms

 * Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

 * symptomatology
 * symptomless

Related terms

 * asymptomatic
 * asymptote
 * symptomatic

Thesaurus
abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, badge, banner, basis for belief, birth defect, blight, body of evidence, broad hint, cardiovascular disease, chain of evidence, character, characteristic, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clue, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, cue, danger sign, data, datum, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, device, differentia, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, documentation, early symptom, earmark, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, evidence, exhibit, fact, facts, falling barometer, feature, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, gathering clouds, genetic disease, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer, glimmering, grounds, grounds for belief, hallmark, handicap, hereditary disease, high sign, hint, iatrogenic disease, idiosyncrasy, illness, image, implication, index, indicant, indication, indicator, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, inkling, innuendo, insignia, insinuation, intimation, item of evidence, keynote, kick, look, malady, malaise, manifestation, mark, marker, material grounds, measure, morbidity, morbus, muniments, muscular disease, mute witness, neurological disease, nod, note, nudge, nutritional disease, occupational disease, omen, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, picture, piece of evidence, plant disease, precursor, preliminary sign, premises, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, prompt, proof, property, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, quarantine flag, reason to believe, red flag, red light, relevant fact, representation, representative, respiratory disease, rockiness, scent, seal, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, sigil, sign, signal, signature, significant, signs, skull and crossbones, spoor, stamp, storm petrel, stormy petrel, suggestion, sure sign, suspicion, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, telltale, telltale sign, the pip, thundercloud, thunderhead, token, track, trait, urogenital disease, virus disease, warning sign, warning signal, wasting disease, whisper, wink, worm disease, yellow flag, yellow jack

Etymology
From σύμπτωμα: < stem of συμπίπτω: < συν-: + πίπτω:.

Translations

 * Catalan: símptoma
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תסמין (tɑsmin), סימפטום (simptom)
 * Hindi: lakshan


 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 症状 (しょうじょう, shōjō)
 * Malayalam: രോഗലക്ഷണം (roga lakshaNam)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , ,

Noun

 * 1) symptom

Related terms

 * symptomatický