symptom
/ˈsɪmptəm/noun
1- Medicine a physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient: dental problems may be a symptom of other illness【医】症状。比较SIGN （义项1）.
1.1
- a sign of the existence of something, especially of an undesirable situation征兆（尤指令人不快的）：
the government was plagued by leaks-a symptom of divisions and poor morale.
政府为泄密而苦恼——这是人心分散和士气低落的征兆。
派生词
symptomless
adjective词源
late Middle English synthoma, from medieval Latin, based on Greek sumptōma 'chance, symptom', from sumpiptein 'happen'; later influenced by French symptome.