symptoms
- 1Plural of symptom.
Cold and flu share many of the same symptoms in their early stages.
The new medication eased her symptoms within a few days.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, and the natural form for talking about illness, which seldom shows itself in just one way. Strictly, symptoms are what the patient feels or experiences, such as headache or fever, while signs are what an observer can detect; careful clinical writing keeps the two apart. The plural carries the figurative use too, usually for something unwelcome: symptoms of a deeper problem.
symptoms is a form of symptom
symptom, noun: A change in function, sensation, or appearance that a person feels and that points to a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache, or rash. Full entry
- Forms
- symptomsymptoms plural
- Spelling
- symptom → symptoms: add -s
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