39 Metaphors for symptoms

Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c. Symptoms are either of body or mind; of body, paleness, leanness, dryness, &c. Pallidus omnis amans, color hic est aptus amanti, as the poet describes lovers: fecit amor maciem, love causeth leanness.

SYMPTOMS.The earliest symptom is a dragging sensation in the back when the child is in the act of sucking, and an exhausted feeling of sinking and emptiness at the pit of the stomach afterwards.

Thus, a wounded French officer said of the seven days of continuous fighting which opened the German offensive against Verdun: "The first symptom of the battle favorable to the French was the inability of the Germans to silence the French artillery.

Every symptom she betrayed of confusion, was to him a symptom of something inexpressibly soothing.

Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body, Mind, good, bad, &c. Symptoms are either of body or mind; of body, paleness, leanness, dryness, &c. Pallidus omnis amans, color hic est aptus amanti, as the poet describes lovers: fecit amor maciem, love causeth leanness.

If, on the other hand, symptoms of tight-nailing show themselves in an animal with good sound feet, then there is no objection to be raised against having the shoe at once removed.

And other such symptoms are only too plentifulthe announcement of a novel with the title of "Why Paul Freeoll Killed his Wife" being one of the latest.

This shows that the symptoms of ill-health among women are not a matter of climate only, but indicate a change in social conditions, producing a change of personal habits.

The symptoms are the reverse of cretinism and myxedema.

The most grievous and common symptoms are fear and sorrow, and that without a cause to the wisest and discreetest men, in this malady not to be avoided.

"I'm free to admit the symptoms aren't the usual ones.

SYMPTOMS.The symptoms of natural dentition (which this may be fairly called) are, an increased flow of saliva, with swelling and heat of the gums, and occasionally flushing of the cheeks.

Like Sappho and the Hindoos (and some modern Critics) he also seems to imagine that the chief symptoms of love are emaciation, perspiration, and paralysis, as we see in the absurdly overrated second Idyl, of which I have already spoken (116).

The most prominent symptom, perhaps, is the frequent cough.

These symptoms of terrour and amazement might better become impostors true only to fear, might become a coward at the recital of such falsehoods, as no man could credit, whose understanding was not weakened by his terrours; tales, told by a woman over a fire on the authority of her grandam.

I waited upon the Heathen, Thursday was a se'nnight; the first symptom which struck my eye and gave me incontrovertible proof of the fatal truth was a pair of nankeen pantaloons four times too big for him, which the said Heathen did pertinaciously affirm to be new.

DiagnosisThe diagnostic symptoms are the severe catarrh, combined not only with fever, but speedy emaciation.

Symptoms therefore are either universal or particular, saith Gordonius, lib. med.

The heat of body is much less acute, and the principal symptoms are difficulty of breathing, headache, coated tongue, and nausea, which sometimes amounts to vomiting.

The unfavourable symptoms in measles are a high degree of fever, the excessive heat and dryness of the skin, hurried and short breathing, and a particularly hard pulse.

These symptoms were proof positive to Mrs. Burton that Mary cared for Jervis, and she was sorely troubled about it.

There is a disease called the black spauld, which sometimes rages like a pestilence among black cattle, the symptoms of which are a mortification in the legs and a corruption of the mass of blood.

The symptoms of the mind are superfluous and continual cogitations; [2630]"for when the head is heated, it scorcheth the blood, and from thence proceed melancholy fumes, which trouble the mind," Avicenna.

Increasing symptoms of weakness; but the joy of the Lord is my strength: my soul longs after Him.

One distressing symptom was a total absence of sleep, and the medical men declared their opinion, that without sleep being induced he could not recover.

39 Metaphors for  symptoms