WORDS DEFINED

Words are a tool we use to convey a massage and if a work is not understood the massage will be incomplete and a communication breakdown is inevitable.

asymptomatic

Adjective: showing no symptoms of a particular disease:

• asymptomatic HIV infecͲ tion

• evidence suggests that many Ebola infections are asympͲ tomatic.

• most people with chlaͲ mydia are asymptomatic and do not seek testing.

symptomatic

Adjective: showing symptoms of a particular disease:

If something bad is symptomatic of something else, it is caused by the other thing and is proof that it exists:

Jealousy within a relationship is usually symptomatic of low self-esteem in one of the partners.

• symptomatic AIDS paͲ

tients

• symptomatic influenza

• a doctor who had treated an Ebola patient may have been symptomatic when he boarded the plane.

The words defined are taken from the Cambridge Dictionary