symptomatic
Anything symptomatic relates to the symptoms of a disease. If you're symptomatic, you might be sick.
A symptom is a sign of a disease or illness. Symptoms of a cold include a stuffed nose and cough. So if you have a cough, you're symptomatic. Being symptomatic means you're showing symptoms of something. Sometimes you can be symptomatic and not have an illness: the doctor might not be sure why you're having headaches, for example.
Definitions of symptomatic
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relating to or according to or affecting a symptom or symptoms“symptomatic relief”“symptomatic treatment”“a symptomatic classification of diseases”
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characteristic or indicative of a disease“a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever”“symptomatic of insanity”“a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown”synonyms: diagnosticcharacteristictypical or distinctive
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