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SYMPTOMATIC

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic or indicative of a disease

Example:

a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown

Synonyms:

diagnostic; symptomatic

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

characteristic (typical or distinctive)

Derivation:

symptom (anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence)

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms

Example:

a symptomatic classification of diseases

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Derivation:

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

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 Context examples: 

Inhibition of serotonin recycling enhances serotonergic function through serotonin accumulation in the synaptic cleft, which resulting in long-term desensitization and downregulation of 5HT1 (serotonin) receptors and leading to symptomatic relief of depressive illness.

(Paroxetine Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

Any state accompanied by evidence of HIV in the body (positive test for HIV genome, cDNA, proteins, antigens, or antibodies); may be medically asymptomatic or symptomatic; prefer AIDS when appropriate.

(HIV Infection, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

A symptomatic form of epilepsy often preceded by an aura; characterized by loss of consciousness with generalized tonic- clonic seizures.

(Grand Mal Seizure, Food and Drug Administration)

It is used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis and for chronic urticaria.

(Cetirizine, NCI Thesaurus)

With antihistaminic and local anesthetic properties as well, it is indicated for symptomatic relief of parkinsonism and drug-induced extrapyramidal reactions.

(Benztropine Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac perforation may or may not be symptomatic and may or may not be self sealing.

(Cardiac Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Inhibition of serotonin recycling enhances serotonergic function through serotonin accumulation in the synaptic cleft, resulting in long-term desensitization and downregulation of 5HT1 (serotonin) receptors and leading to symptomatic relief of depressive illness.

(Paroxetine hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Classification is generally based upon motor manifestations of the seizure (e.g., convulsive, nonconvulsive, akinetic, atonic, etc.) or etiology (e.g., idiopathic, cryptogenic, and symptomatic). (From Mayo Clin Proc, 1996 Apr;71(4):405-14)

(Generalized Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Since the great majority of symptomatic myeloma patients are classified as stage III by the Durie/Salmon criteria, this staging system has not proven to be very useful for identifying the patients with intermediate and poor prognosis.

(DS Stage III Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

A sign, signal, circumstance, or symptom which serves to indicate or point out the cause, pathology, treatment, or issue of an attack of disease; the basis for initiation of a treatment for a disease or of a diagnostic test (causal, or symptomatic, or disease-specific indication).

(Indication, NCI Thesaurus)