symptoms
Disease reveals itself
Symptoms are signs that indicate something is wrong, especially with health.
A symptom of disease is something the patient experiences—pain, fatigue, nausea—as distinct from clinical signs a doctor observes.
The word extends beyond medicine: Rising prices are a symptom of inflation.
Symptoms point to underlying causes rather than being the problem itself.
Elevated body temperature
- coughExplosive airway clearing
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
- headacheCranial pain
chills · congestion · vomiting · dizziness · pain · sweating · diarrhea · soreness
Displays conveying information
- indicationsEvidence suggesting something
- manifestationsPerceptible forms of something
- markersPens with porous tips
- signalsConveyed indications
evidence · clues · cues · hallmarks · characteristics · features · presentation · onset
Formal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
analysis · interpretation · consultation · differential · workup · triage · history · presentation
Urgent warning signal
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- alertWarning or watchfulness
precursor · portent · prodromal · herald · foreshadowing · omen
fever
Elevated body temperature
- coughExplosive airway clearing
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
headache · chills · congestion · vomiting · dizziness · pain · sweating · diarrhea · soreness · cramps
signs
Displays conveying information
- indicationsEvidence suggesting something
- manifestationsPerceptible forms of something
- markersPens with porous tips
signals · evidence · clues · cues · hallmarks · characteristics · features · presentation · onset · progression
assessment
Formal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- examinationMethodical assessment or review
identification · analysis · interpretation · consultation · differential · workup · triage · history · presentation · etiology
alarm
Urgent warning signal
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
alert · precursor · portent · prodromal · herald · foreshadowing · omen
- healthhealth, wellness, vitality, fitness, well-being
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- illnessdisease, sickness, illness, ailment, disorder
- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, epidemic, COVID
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
symptomscauses
Brings into being
root causes · etiology · origins · sources · pathogenesis
symptomshealth
Condition of body, mind
wellness · symptomless · asymptomatic · vitality · well-being
- flu symptomsHow illness manifests
- stroke symptoms
- withdrawal symptomsEffects of stopping dependence
- flu-like symptomsSigns mimicking influenza
- no symptoms
- symptom free
symptom, asymptomatic, symptomatic, symptomatically, symptomless, symptomatology, presymptomatic