Adjective
Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
Source: Webster's dictionaryARF is an acute inflammatory reaction with pathognomonic Aschoff bodies histologically and RHD is a non-inflammatory sequelae of ARF. Source: Internet
It is pathognomonic for autoinfective larvae and can be used as a diagnostic criterion for strongyloidiasis due to S. stercoralis. Source: Internet
Some signs are specifically characteristic and indicative of a disease and are called pathognomonic signs; but these are rare. Source: Internet
What distinguishes each disease symptomatically (as opposed to the underlying pathology) is not any particular (pathognomonic) symptom or symptoms, but a specific pattern of symptoms. Source: Internet