indication
Etymology
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Etymology
From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō, from indicō ("point out, indicate, show; value"); see indicate; compare French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.
Morphologically indicate + -ion
Pronunciation- IPA: /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/
indication
- Act of pointing out or indicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- Synonyms: symptom, evidence
- There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals.
- All the indications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident.
- September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156
- The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, page 274 ↗:
- Her shrewd eye, accustomed to note the slightest indications, had already marked their likeness to each other, and that ease of affection which belongs to habit and relationship.
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- Synonyms: mark, token, sign
- Discovery made; information.
- (obsolete) Explanation; display.
(medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure). - Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.
- In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication.
- The theme of treatment failure of previous treatments plus continuing impairment (pain and poor function) appears among the indications for many types of joint replacement surgery.
- (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
- French: indication
- German: Indiz
- Russian: указание
- Spanish: indicación
- French: symbole
- German: Zeichen, Sonderzeichen
- Italian: simbolo
- Portuguese: símbolo
- Russian: знак
- Spanish: símbolo
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