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

See Phenomenon.

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

See Phenomenon.

See Phenomenon.

A token or sign. as, symptoms of unrest in a country; any noticeable change in the body or its functions, as indicating disease.

Any morbid phenomenon or departure from the normal in function, appearance, or sensation, experienced by the patient and indicative of disease. For the various symptoms and varieties of symptoms, see below and also under phenomenon, reflex, sign, and syndrome.

That which attends and indicates the existence of something else, not as a cause, but as a constant effect: (med.) that which indicates disease.

An indication of something else; indication, or attendant phenomenon, of disease.

A phenomenon of disease; a sign, token, or indication.

Something that happens in concurrence with another thing; that which indicates disease; a mark; a token.

Any evidence of disease or of a patient's state.

Any perceptible change in the body or its functions which may be taken as an indication of the nature, situation, severity, etc., of a morbid process. See also sign.

n. [French, Greek] A perceptible change in the body or its functions which indicates disease ;-that which indicates the existence of something else; sign; token; indication.