We have, of course, only indicated in the briefest way some of the things which may be regarded as symptomatic of strange mental and moral conditions in the circle in which the affair has occurred.
The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life.
Similarly mono-symptomatic hysteria is characteristic of oases occurring in the uneducated or peasant class.
Extraordinary symptomatic phenomena have occurred in Russia as well as in Britain.
In the beginning of the attack, sharp pain, high fever, and tympanitic distension of the lower abdomen are symptomatic of inflammation in the pelvic peritoneum.
The symptomatic eruptions of the skin which pass under the name of roseola bear no resemblance to rötheln.
Bilateral symptomatic parotitis has naturally a graver prognosis than the unilateral form.
The following brief clinical histories of two cases will serve to illustrate the symptomatic phenomena of this form of pernicious malarial fever: M.
Their correction will often bring about the relief ofsymptomatic conditions that have proved quite obstinate to treatment.
In many patients, however, there is no such history, though there is usually the story ofsymptomatic mental conditions of one or other of the types mentioned, earlier in life.
Even symptomatic asthma, then, has a definite place in psychotherapeutics, though {365} it would be serious not to recognize the underlying conditions and treat them.
Most of those who see the symptomatic picture for the first time think that death is impending, and the patient himself, if he has not had a series of attacks, will fear a fatal termination.
It is important to differentiate symptomatic from neurotic or essential asthma.
Expectant treatment, supplemented by symptomatic treatment, has proved in many institutions to give excellent results without the necessity of troubling the patients with more or less dubious drugs.
In symptomatic asthma the only assured treatment of the condition must come through amelioration of the organic condition causing the symptoms.
When communicated to the human subject, it produces, besides ulceration on the hand, a considerable tumour of the arm, with symptomatic fever, both which gradually subside.
In some the tonsils were beset with aphthous sloughs, and towards the decline there would be aphthae of the mouth, but symptomatic only, and not the dominant lesion as in the ulcerous sore-throat.
Holding this view, I can see no reason for repeating here the details of purely symptomatic treatment.
If costiveness is suspected to besymptomatic of some derangement, then a restoration of the general health will establish the lost function of the bowels.
It is further manifest that locked-jaw is onlysymptomatic of diseased nervous structures, and that a pathological state of the nervous filaments may be brought about independent of a prick of a nail, or direct injury to a nerve.
Hence, instead of tetanus consisting "in a spasmodic contraction of the muscles of voluntary motion," it consists in a deranged state of the nervous system; and the contracted state of the muscles is only symptomatic of such derangement.
Until we do so, the stale joke of the "Great Unwashed" recoils upon ourselves, and is no less symptomatic of defective sanitary arrangements than the possibility of a drought in Bermondsey.
No nation ever exhibited more of this symptomatic terror, on all occasions of internal disturbance, than the pretending Republic of Venice.
In symptomatic anemia it is generally moderately diminished.
The changes in hemoglobin and red cells resemble those of a moderate symptomatic anemia, with rather low color-index.
Red corpuscles which vary from the normal in size and shape are present in most symptomatic anemias, and in the severer grades are often very numerous.
Secondary anemia is that which is symptomatic of some other {204} pathologic condition.
Oligocythemia occurs in all but the mildestsymptomatic anemias.
A few polychromatophilic corpuscles can be found in marked symptomatic anemias.
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
It has been found that the flesh of animals dead of symptomatic anthrax may retain its infection after having been preserved in a dry state for ten years.
This is proved by the fact that they apply local, symptomatic treatment.
This sounds plausible and seductive; but everyday experiences expose the inadequacy and the destructive aftereffects of local symptomatic treatment.
This is not strange; since the medical and surgical symptomatic treatment of acute diseases creates the chronic conditions, it certainly cannot be expected to cure them.
The prevention and the cure of all these ailments lie not in local symptomatic treatment and suppression by drugs or knife, but in the rational and natural treatment of the body as a whole.
Homeopathic materia medica teaches that ~Bryonia~ has a special affinity for the mucous and serous membranes of the respiratory tract and that its symptomatic effects correspond closely to those described in the preceding paragraph.
Occurrences weresymptomatic of what was to come; and again, on the Eastern, as on the Western front, the Allies suffered from the lack of unity of command.
This victory, as symptomatic as others of German disorder, freed the Verdun-Commercy railway, and completed the attenuation of Ludendorff's reserves.
The day was not lost; but at this critical moment occurred an incident which was symptomatic of Russia's disorders, and was the death sentence of Russia's continuance as a combatant.
The functions both of the sanguiferous and nervous systems are deranged, producing a state termed Symptomatic or Sympathetic Inflammatory Fever.
This fever is the remote consequence of local injury, or disease, whereas symptomatic inflammatory fever is the immediate one.
The disease may occur idiopathically, or be symptomatic of other affections.
In some persons there is however a special tendency to motor activity, in itself a symptomatic manifestation, which necessitates the carrying out of the dream wish through walking in the sleep.
He was still a stranger to the sentiments symptomatic of an approaching revolution, and has not explicitly pronounced upon issues hardly revealed even to The prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming of things to come.
It is more than probable that in these cases the night-mare was merely symptomatic of other complaints.
No arrangement could have been more annoying to Mr. Monroe and his cabinet, or more symptomatic of a settled opposition.
When it was intimated to him that his course was regarded as symptomatic of party apostasy, he replied that his sense of duty should never yield to the pleasure of party.
Connected with forgetting are what Freud calls symptomatic acts.
All that transpires during pubescence is symptomatic of the underlying tidal stir in the cells.
The point to be settled is whether epileptic genius, that is epilepsy with superior ability, occurs most often in pituitocentrics, the epilepsy being symptomatic of a pituitary struggling against barriers, tugging against bonds.
Then a mild but symptomaticstorm burst on their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "symptomatic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
