symptomatic
IPA: sɪmptʌmˈætɪk
noun
- A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.
adjective
- (medicine) Showing symptoms.
- (by extension) Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
- (medicine) Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
- (medicine) Relating to symptomatics.
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Examples of "symptomatic" in Sentences
- The treatment is largely symptomatic.
- He became symptomatic and went to the ER.
- The majority of time treatment is symptomatic.
- It is just symptomatic of the major problem here.
- It's petty foolishness and is symptomatic of clannish myopia.
- It is symptomatic of the collective deficit of trust in the society.
- The treatment is symptomatic and largely the same as with diclofenac.
- Symptomatic treatment can be given in the form of blood transfusions.
- But his action is symptomatic of a contempt for the authority of arbcom.
- Chronic injuries as a result of the falls are symptomatic of the disorder.
- So, you know, a lot of the treatment for this is what we call symptomatic treatment.
- Sometimes shenpa is so strong that we're willing to die getting this short-term symptomatic relief.
- (NSAIDs / NSAIAs) are effective for short-term symptomatic relief in patients with acute low back pain.
- The three characteristics are what the psychologists describe as symptomatic of the classic psychopath.
- We probably could do a better job of diagnosing it in symptomatic patients, especially those who have been given the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome.
- Results of a recent clinical trial by a team of researchers in Madrid suggest that local steroid injection is just as effective as surgery for the long-term symptomatic relief of carpal tunnel syndrome - for a year, at least - and actually more effective over the short term.
- Leaders of the foundation said their goal is to do away with structural racism, which they described as symptomatic of the wide swath of racial disparities inherent in health outcomes for minorities, the achievement gap in the education system and the disproportionate number of minorities who are imprisoned.
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