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Symptom vs Symptotic - What's the difference?

symptom | symptotic |

As a noun 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 an adjective symptotic is

intersecting, crossing.

symptom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See also

    Antonyms

    * Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

    Derived terms

    * symptomatology * symptomless

    Related terms

    * asymptomatic * asymptote * symptomatic

    External links

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    symptotic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) (of lines) Intersecting, crossing.
  • :" ... some are asymptotic, namely, those which however far extended never meet, and others that do intersect are symptotic" (A commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements By Proclus, translated by Glenn Raymond Morrow, page 139)
  • (rare) Symptomatic; relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.