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symptom is a noun meaning "(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease". It carries 2 recorded senses.
(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
medicine
anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for symptom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.