Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characteristic or symptomatic of a particular disease or condition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. diagnostic beyond any doubt for a particular disease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease.
Etymologies
- Greek pathognōmonikos : patho-, patho- + gnōmonikos, able to judge (from gnōmōn, interpreter; see gnō- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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
“Mutism and stupor, although characteristic of catatonia, are not pathognomonic.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“There are no laboratory findings pathognomonic of schizophrenia, although schizophrenics show abnormalities on several laboratory tests.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“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.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“None of these is pathognomonic (48, 49) (see specific disorders in Chapters 9 through 19 for details).”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“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.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Catatonic behaviors also have been mistakenly considered pathognomonic of schizophrenia.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Are there pathognomonic symptoms in schizophrenia?”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Diagnosis Acute pain, reduced shoulder movement, swelling, large brachio-cephalic bruise, and the arm internally rotated (pathognomonic of this fracture).”
“_ -- This, the pathognomonic sign of either condition, was always present in the fully developed stage, and is probably present from the first unless a temporary thrombosis obstructs the vascular openings.”
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