different between symptom vs diagnosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m(p)t?m/
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

Antonyms

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

• symptomatology
• symptomless

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

Translations

Further reading

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Etymology

From German Symptom from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?mptom]

Noun

symptom m

1. symptom

Declension

Related terms

• symptomatický

References

Danish

Noun

symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)

1. symptom

Declension

Derived terms

• symptomfri

Related terms

• symptomatisk

References

• “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp?tu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)

1. symptom

Derived terms

• abstinenssymptom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)

1. symptom

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.pt?m/

Noun

symptom m inan

1. symptom

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

In the Swedish language since 1730. From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”).

Noun

symptom n

1. Dated form of symtom (“symptom”).

English

Etymology

From Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da????n??s?s/

Noun

diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural diagnoses)

1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
   • 1887, Charles L. Reade and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir

     The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

   • 1887, James Payn, Glow-worm tales

     My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

3. (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.

Derived terms

Related terms

• diagnose
• diagnostic
• diagnostics

Translations

Verb

diagnosis

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of diagnose
   • 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Further reading

• diagnosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diagnosis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• diagnosis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”). Doublet of diagnosa and diagnose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dia??nos?s]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?no?sis

Noun

diagnosis (plural diagnosis-diagnosis, first-person possessive diagnosisku, second-person possessive diagnosismu, third-person possessive diagnosisnya)

1. diagnosis:
   1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
   2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

Alternative forms

• diagnosa
• diagnose

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “diagnosis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -osis

Noun

diagnosis f (plural diagnosis)

1. diagnosis