ptomato-, ptomat-, pto-, -ptosia, -ptosis, -ptoma, -ptot- +

1. A characteristic sign or indication of the existence of something else.
2. A sign or an indication of disorder or disease, especially when experienced by an individual as a change from normal function, sensation, or appearance.
3. Etymology: from about 1541, earlier sinthoma (1398), from Medieval Latin (c.700-c.1500) sinthoma, "symptom of a disease"; from Late Latin (c.300-c.700) symptoma, from Greek symptoma (genitive symptomatos), "a happening, an accident, a disease"; from the stem of sympiptein, "to befall"; from syn-, "together" + piptein, "to fall". Spelling was altered in English by Middle French (c.1400-c.1600) and Late Latin forms.

1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a symptom.
2. Indicative (of a particular disease or disorder).
3. Exhibiting the symptoms of a particular disease but having a different cause.
4. Directed at the allying of symptoms, as a symptomatic treatment.

1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else: "He was symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper."
2. According to symptoms; such as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.

1. The study of the relationships between symptoms and diseases.
2. The set of symptoms that are associated with a disease or that affect a patient.
3. The branch of medical science dealing with symptoms.
4. The collective symptoms of a patient or disease.

1. That branch of medicine that treats symptoms; the systematic discussion of symptoms.
2. The combined symptoms of a disease.

1. Causing the disappearance of symptoms.
2. Serving to eradicate, or removing, symptoms.

1. Exhibiting or showing no symptoms of illness or disease: "She had a symptomless infection."
2. Without obvious signs or symptoms of disease. Cancer may cause symptoms and warning signs, but, especially in its early stages, cancer may develop and grow without producing any symptoms.

That which causes the disappearance of symptoms.

The manifestations of disease and pathological conditions that may occur in various diseases and different organs.

1. A localized or general wasting of the body.
2. The gradual wasting of the whole body or of any organ in the body.

Relaxation or elongation of the uvula (central tag-like structure hanging down from the edge of the soft palate or roof of the mouth).

1. A prolapse (slipping or falling out of place) or caudal (being below) displacement of viscera; especially abdominal viscera or of the intestine.
2. The downward displacement of an organ within a body cavity; such as, the intestine or a kidney, caused by loss of support.
3. The prolapse or downward displacement of the viscera.