symptom

Meaning

Noun

• A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
• A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Related

Similar words

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal

Opposite words

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Origin

• From Ancient Greek σύμπτωμα ("a happening, accident, symptom of disease"), from stem of συμπίπτω, from συν- + πίπτω.