Symp'tom-āt'ic or Symp'tom-āt'ic-al, a.
a. [Fr. symptomatique, It. & Sp. sintomatico, Gr. συμπτωματικός.]
Sense 1. Of, or pertaining to, symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; indicating the existence of something else. “Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.” Macaulay.
Sense 2. According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.
Symptomatic disease (Med.), a disease which proceeds from some prior disorder in some part of the body.