Pathognomonic vs Characteristic - What's the difference?
pathognomonic | characteristic |
Diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease.
Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.
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(mathematics) the integer part of a logarithm
(nautical) the distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc)
(algebra, field theory) The minimum number of times that the unit of a field must be added unto itself in order to yield that field's zero, or, if that minimum natural number does not exist, then (the integer) zero.
As adjectives the difference between pathognomonic and characteristic
is that pathognomonic is diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease while characteristic is being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.As a noun characteristic is
a distinguishable feature of a person or thing.pathognomonic
English
(wikipedia pathognomonic)Adjective
- A tetrade of rash, arthralgia, abdominal pain and kidney disease in a child is pathognomonic for .
Antonyms
* assidentcharacteristic
English
(wikipedia characteristic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Synonyms
* distinctive * exclusive * idiosyncratic * indicative * representative * signature * specific * typicalAntonyms
* uncharacteristic * untypicalDerived terms
* characteristic function * characteristicnessNoun
(en noun)- A field's characteristic, if non-zero, must be a prime number.