Injury vs Symptom - What's the difference?
injury | symptom |
damage to the body of a human or animal
violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
(archaic) injustice
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
*, II.12:
(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.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
As nouns the difference between injury and symptom
is that injury is damage to the body of a human or animal while symptom is a perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.As a verb injury
is to wrong, to injure.injury
English
(wikipedia injury)Alternative forms
* enjuryNoun
(injuries)- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injusticeVerb
- The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.