symp.tomとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɪm(p)təm/
• ハイフネーション: sym‧ptom

名詞

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.

   The doctor told that his coughing and sneezing was the symptom of standing for too long in the rain.

   Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.

2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

   Lying, hiding one's true feelings, and having affairs are typical symptoms of a doomed marriage.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 114–115:

     "Nay, nay," exclaimed Lord Norbourne, "I cannot go quite so far as that. I have, thanks to your hospitality, laid in a stock of health enough for the ensuing winter: but as to the general benevolence of which you talk, I confess I find no symptoms: if I did, they would alarm me more than those of the gout."

   • 2009, Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare:

     Some people see birth outside of marriage as a social problem—a sign of a breakdown in the traditional family and a symptom of moral decay.

同意語

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

反意語

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

派生語

関連する語

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “symptom”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Further reading

• “symptom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “symptom”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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