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symptomatic Definition

symp·to·matic (simp′tə matik)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with symptoms
  2. that constitutes a symptom, as of a disease; indicative (of)
  3. in accordance with symptoms a symptomatic treatment

Etymology: Fr symptomatique < Gr symptōmatikos, accidental

symptomatic Related Forms
symp′·to·mati·cally adverb
symptomatic Synonyms

symptomatic

modif.

indicative, characteristic, emblematic, significant; see suggestive.

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

  • remain: However, a small percentage of patients remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy.
  • become: In other words, the accident caused the problem to become symptomatic.
  • seem: This somehow seems symptomatic of the critical esteem in which the post-mortem Kubrick is held.

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