Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Specific to a certain disease or condition, as a symptom or finding on physical examination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; hence, belonging to or inseparable from a disease, being found in it and in no other; characteristic: as, pathognomonic symptoms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Descriptions of this virus is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertsons circle of friends, Dr. Horowitz charges.
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Descriptions of this virus is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertsons circle of friends, Dr. Horowitz charges.
I want to become infected with the Swine Flu - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState 2009
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Are there pathognomonic symptoms in schizophrenia?
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Delusions, however, are not pathognomonic of schizophrenia and occur with equal frequency in patients with affective disorder and coarse brain disease 13; 159; 555, pp. 18-22, pp.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Catatonic behaviors also have been mistakenly considered pathognomonic of schizophrenia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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There are no laboratory findings pathognomonic of schizophrenia, although schizophrenics show abnormalities on several laboratory tests.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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None of these is pathognomonic (48, 49) (see specific disorders in Chapters 9 through 19 for details).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Mutism and stupor, although characteristic of catatonia, are not pathognomonic.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Inappropriateness of mood quality (laughing in a sad situation) is not a pathognomonic sign and may reflect normal anxiety (e.g., gallows humor), as well as serious illness.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Diagnosis Acute pain, reduced shoulder movement, swelling, large brachio-cephalic bruise, and the arm internally rotated (pathognomonic of this fracture).
Chapter 8 1989
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