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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

症状

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zhèngzhuàng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Symptom/ˈsɪmp.təm/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"咳嗽和发烧是感冒的常见症状。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is experienced, perceived, and reported by the patient.

    "A persistent cough and fever are the primary symptoms of the infection."
  2. 2

    A sign or indication of the existence of something else, especially of an undesirable situation.

    "High unemployment is often just a symptom of a much deeper economic problem."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the ancient Greek word 'symptōma', meaning 'an accident, mishap, or occurrence', formed by combining 'syn-' (together) and 'piptein' (to fall). In Late Latin and medieval medical terminology, it evolved to specifically denote a physical or mental sign indicating a disease.

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