[Lexicog] missing word

[Kenneth C. Hill]

I like "ARRAY of symptoms"; my wife's grandfather's Dictionary of Medicine
Biology (1903) defines a "symptom-complex" as an "ENSEMBLE of symptoms of
a disease" and "labyrinthine symptoms" as "a GROUP of symptoms due to
lesion or disease of the internal ear." I hope these help jog your mind.

--Ken

--- Wayne Leman <wayne_leman at sil.org> wrote:

> My wife and I are having a senior moment (which has lasted for a day or
> longer!). We are trying to remember a certain English word which refers
> to
> the way that a list of medical symptoms groups together so that a
> specific
> diagnosis is quite likely. We have checked thesauri and our own mental
> databanks and come up with the following synonyms, but we are still
> missing
> the word itself. Perhaps one or more of you can come up with the word we
> sense that we are missing.
>
> Synonyms:
>
> complex, coalesce, conspire, congregate, confluence, conflux, group,
> union,
> set, junction, syndrome, complex
>
> The missing word should fit in the following sentence:
>
> "The ______ of symptoms leads us to believe that one diagnosis is most
> likely out of the several possible diagnoses."
>
> The word "complex" seems most likely right now, but I'm not getting that
> "Euraka!" feeling about it that I usually get when having one of these
> vocabulary senior moments and then the word pops into mind.
>
> Thank you,
> Wayne
> -----
> Wayne Leman
> Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
>
>



		
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