Symptomatic vs Cryptogenic - What's the difference?
symptomatic | cryptogenic |
(medicine) (of a disease ) Showing symptoms.
Relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.
* Macaulay
(of an organism) Of uncertain origin, either introduced or native to its area.
(of epilepsy) Presumed but not proven to be caused by an abnormality in a particular part of the brain (contrasts with symptomatic and idiopathic).
(of a disease) Of uncertain cause.
As adjectives the difference between symptomatic and cryptogenic
is that symptomatic is (of a disease) Showing symptoms while cryptogenic is of uncertain origin, either introduced or native to its area.symptomatic
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Alternative forms
* symptomatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
- Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.