symptom

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noun

Plural noun:

symptoms

1.
(medicine) 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.
Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.
2.
(figuratively)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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Đồng nghĩa

indication manifestation sign signalsign, signal

Trái nghĩa

Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causecause

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English sinthoma, from sinthoma, altered by LL. symptoma, from Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα (a happening, accident, symptom of disease), from stem of συμπίπτω (Ι befall), from συν- (together) + πίπτω (to fall). See also syn-, -oma, -ome.