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Word: Symptom
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English synthoma, from medieval Latin, based on Greek sumptōma ‘chance, symptom’, from sumpiptein ‘happen’; later influenced by French symptome
ˈsɪm(p)təm
a physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient
Short Definition:physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating condition of disease
Examples:- dental problems may be a symptom of other illness
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