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Definition of Pathognomonic
1. a. Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
Definition of Pathognomonic
1. Adjective. Beyond-any-doubt diagnostic for a particular disease. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pathognomonic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pathognomonic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathognomonic
Literary usage of Pathognomonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brain Abscess: Its Surgical Pathology and Operative Technic by Wells Phillips Eagleton (1922)
"Even when it is the seat of a large collection of pus no localizing symptoms may
be present. Two pathognomonic symptoms, however, frequently are present and ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
"There are three other signs, which, when inited, are pathognomonic of air and
fluid natters со existing in the pleura. These re the hippocratic fluctuation, ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"pathognomonic Sign of Fracture of the Neck of Clinical Characteristics of
Wool-sorters' Disease. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France, and the by George James Guthrie (1855)
"Ecchymosis, pathognomonic of blood effused into the chest. Conclusions, six in
number. 325. THE most simple injury, perforating the wall of the chest, ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1862)
"The destroying angel of »n army is fever, not gunpowder."—Lancet, May 21, 186 p.
515. 5.—pathognomonic SIGN OF SCARLATINA. For some years past, ..."
6. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"Pathogen Patho-gnomie, /. the diagnosis of disease by pathognomonic signs
Patho-gnomik, /. ... a. pathognomonic ..."
7. Handbook of Diseases of the Skin by Hugo Ziemssen (1885)
"The region from the nipples to the knees is considered one of the largest, and
termed by Hebra, with justice, particularly pathognomonic. Fio. 48. ..."
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