Medical term meaning "characteristic for a particular disease"
Pathognomonic (rare synonym pathognomic[1]) is a term, often used in medicine, that means "characteristic for a particular disease". A pathognomonic sign is a particular sign whose presence means that a particular disease is present beyond any doubt. Labelling a sign or symptom "pathognomonic" represents a marked intensification of a "diagnostic" sign or symptom.
The word is an adjective of Greek origin derived from πάθος pathos 'disease' and γνώμων gnomon 'indicator' (from γιγνώσκω gignosko 'I know, I recognize').
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Pathognomonic (rare synonym pathognomic) is a term, often used in medicine, that means "characteristic for a particular disease". A pathognomonic sign...
Negri bodies are eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion bodies (2–10 μm in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing...
the face. Newly formed nodules often swell with sweating (which is pathognomonic for the condition), but this diminishes over time. Sebaceous glands...
Cardinal signs and symptoms are specific even to the point of being pathognomonic. A cardinal sign or cardinal symptom can also refer to the major sign...
found for Graves disease under Graves' ophthalmopathy. Medical eponyms Pathognomonic List of medical triads and pentads if the palmar arch is not present...
(urate) in the blood, a condition known as hyperuricemia. Tophi are pathognomonic for the disease gout. Most people with tophi have had previous attacks...
(small, dark grey, rodlike particles) and Negri bodies (the larger pathognomonic cellular inclusions of rabies infection) Rabies is caused by a number...
process is made easy by a sign or symptom (or a group of several) that is pathognomonic.[citation needed] Diagnosis is a major component of the procedure of...
The appearance of a separate J wave or Osborn wave at the J-point is pathognomonic of hypothermia or hypercalcemia. ST segment The ST segment connects...
hemianopsia, and, when there is no relevant trauma, this clinical finding is pathognomonic for a pituitary tumor. Some pituitary adenomas can extend inferiorly...
3 layers of the heart, a pathological change named pancarditis. The pathognomonic feature of pancarditis in the case of rheumatic heart disease is the...
with numerous rabies virions (small dark-grey rod-like particles) and Negri bodies (the larger pathognomonic cellular inclusions of rabies infection)...
Occupying Power." In medicine, the term sine qua non (in contrast with pathognomonic) is often used in regard to any sign, symptom, or finding whose absence...
hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and amygdala. On a microscopic scale, a pathognomonic CTE lesion involves p-tau aggregates in neurons, with or without thorn-shaped...
suggestive of chancroid; the presence of suppurative adenopathy is almost pathognomonic. No evidence of Treponema pallidum infection by darkfield microscopic...
especially each one considered individually, and even as a trio they are not pathognomonic for lymphomas, but the presence of the trio is sensitive enough for...
positive predictive value is high enough for it to be regarded as a pathognomonic sign of Hodgkin lymphoma. The pain typically has an onset within minutes...
color. It is seen on the nose, ears, cheeks, lips, and forehead. It is pathognomonic of sarcoidosis.: 701 The name "lupus pernio" is a misnomer, as microscopically...
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