Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SYMP-TOM-AT'IC, or SYMP-TOM-AT'IC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; indicating the existence of something else.
2. In medicine, a symptomatic disease is one which proceeds from some prior disorder in some part of the body. Thus a symptomatic fever may proceed from local injury or local inflammation. It is opposed to idiopathic. – Encyc. Coxe.
3. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.