[Lexicog] Re: missing word

euangeleo euangeleo at YAHOO.COM
Sun Aug 8 17:19:15 UTC 2004


Has anyone mentioned 'battery of symptoms'?  This sounds like a more
technical term to me, but it didn't fare very well on a Google search
(only 69 hits).

Eric Jackson

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Wayne Leman"
<wayne_leman at s...> 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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