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e; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited. Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. Swift.

Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle (Geom.), an angle less than a right angle.

aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.

Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements. Ataxic fever, malignant typhus fever. Pinel.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.

as, a bilious patient; dependent on, or characterized by, an excess of bile; as, bilious symptoms.

vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

the region of the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

The precursory symptoms of cholera.