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Webster 1913 Edition

Pathognomonic

Pa-thogˊno-mon′ic

,
Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] skilled in judging of diseases;
πάθοσ
a disease + [GREEK] skilled: cf. F.
pathognomonique
. See
Gnomic
.]
(Med.)
Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease;
as, a
pathognomonic
symptom
.
The true
pathognomonic
sign of love jealousy.
Arbuthnot.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pathognomonic

PATHOGNOMON'IC

,
Adj.
[Gr. passion or suffering, and to know.]
Indicating that which is inseparable from a disease, being found in that and in no other; hence, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; characteristic; as pathognomonic symptoms.

Definition 2024

pathognomonic

pathognomonic

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Adjective

pathognomonic

  1. Diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease.
    A tetrade of rash, arthralgia, abdominal pain and kidney disease in a child is pathognomonic for Henoch-Schönlein purpura.

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