in Medicine, are symptoms

which usually attend a disease, but not always; hence

differing from pathognomic signs, which are inseparable

from the disease; e.g. in the pleurisy, a pungent

pain in the side, in an acute fever, difficulty of breath-

ing, &c. collectively taken, are pathognomic signs;

but that the pain extends to the hypochondrium or clav-

icle, or that the patient lies with more ease on one side

than on the other, are affident signs.