symptomatic
symptomatic
Definition
symp·to·matic (simp′tə mat′ik)
adjective
- of or having to do with symptoms
- that constitutes a symptom, as of a disease; indicative (of)
- in accordance with symptoms a symptomatic treatment
Etymology: Fr symptomatique < Gr symptōmatikos, accidental
symp′·to·mat′i·cally adverb
symptomatic
Synonyms
symptomatic
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- malaise: They are, however, symptomatic of a more general malaise.
- trend: This is still fairly unusual for an educational site of this type, but is perhaps symptomatic of the current trend in Internet funding.
- lack: Surveys continue to show the same common causes of failure most of which are symptomatic of a lack of good project management.
- failure: Does he agree that the issue is symptomatic of a failure properly to examine the potential environmental impact of green taxes across the board?
- problem: The problems faced by these families are symptomatic of a much wider problem.
- approach: Again, this is symptomatic of a top-down approach.
Modifying Another Word
- perhaps: These attitudes are perhaps symptomatic of today's ' me ' society.
- often: It is often symptomatic of authorities failing to take a long term view.
- all: This is all symptomatic of a broader, concerted assault on our freedoms.
- still: Half of these people are still symptomatic at 18 months.
- only: However, I still had no idea whether the magnet treatment to my own arm was only symptomatic or could eventually promote complete healing.
Modifies a noun
- hypotension: Subjects were reviewed weekly to ensure an increase in ultrafiltrate volume and to avoid side effects such as symptomatic hypotension.
- stenosis: Relatively few patients in Scotland had CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis or for mild or moderate symptomatic stenoses.
- bradycardia: Symptomatic bradycardia and heart block may respond to atropine, isoprenaline or, if necessary, cardiac pacing.
- endometriosis: A total of 269 women undergoing conservative surgery for mild to severe symptomatic endometriosis.
- fibroid: Within 20 years of myomectomy, about 1 in 4 women will undergo hysterectomy most often for recurrent symptomatic fibroids.
- relief: These provide symptomatic relief for people in the mild to moderate stages of the disease.
Used with adjective complement
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