symptomatic
pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
of the nature of or constituting a symptom indicative (often followed by of): a condition symptomatic of cholera;a disagreement that was symptomatic of the deterioration in their relationship.
according to symptoms: a symptomatic classification of disease.
Origin of symptomatic
1- Sometimes symp·to·mat·i·cal .
Other words from symptomatic
- symp·to·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·symp·to·mat·ic, adjective
- pre·symp·to·mat·ic, adjective
- pseu·do·symp·to·mat·ic, adjective
- un·symp·to·mat·ic, adjective
- un·symp·to·mat·i·cal, adjective
- un·symp·to·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby symptomatic
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How to use symptomatic in a sentence
That includes four dolphins in San Diego Bay who were symptomatic with a gastrointestinal illness this past July.
Everything we know—and don’t know—about human-to-animal COVID transmission | jakemeth | September 4, 2020 | FortuneMaryland recommends that people who suspect they’ve been exposed to the virus get a test, whether they are symptomatic or not.
America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One. | by Caroline Chen | September 1, 2020 | ProPublicaOften, results take days or even weeks to get back, which isn’t a useful timeframe when people are already infectious before they’re symptomatic.
The COVID-19 pandemic is about to collide with flu season. Here’s what to expect. | Sara Chodosh | August 26, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWe are already trying to do sensitive testing of anyone with any respiratory disease and in any symptomatic patients that belong to a cluster, or who live in certain risky surroundings like nursing homes.
The inside story of Germany’s coordinated covid response | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewA blood test that can detect pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s could be approved in just a few short years.
The long-awaited Alzheimer’s blood test won’t be for the general public | Katherine Ellen Foley | July 30, 2020 | Quartz
But the most important thing to note, says Monroe, is that only those who are symptomatic are contagious.
Ebola Reston, it seemed, could infect humans, but never became symptomatic.
Already Deadly in Africa, Could Ebola Hit America Next? | Scott Bixby | April 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat is why, like Lynndie England, Bradley Manning is symptomatic of a larger problem.
Manning Is Guilty and So Is the Army That Sent Him Overseas | Brian Van Reet | August 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe CIA, he says, could “render” (i.e., kidnap) him at any time, which is highly unlikely but not symptomatic of the paranoid.
Edward Snowden, We Love You: Why We Should Resist the Hero Worship | Michael Moynihan | June 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis outrageous comments, though, are more symptomatic of the outrageous person Barry is.
Washington D.C. ‘Mayor for Life’ Marion Barry’s Most Outrageous Lines | Caitlin Dickson | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddPathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddA few polychromatophilic corpuscles can be found in marked symptomatic anemias.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddWhat cases of chloasma are included in the symptomatic group?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman Stelwagon
British Dictionary definitions for symptomatic
/ (ˌsɪmptəˈmætɪk) /
(often foll by of) being a symptom; indicative: symptomatic of insanity
of or relating to a symptom or symptoms
according to symptoms: a symptomatic analysis of a case
Derived forms of symptomatic
- symptomatically, adverb
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