Path. Pl. epiphenomena. [f. EPI- + PHENOMENON.] Something that appears in addition; a secondary symptom. Also transf.
1706. in Phillips.
1731–1800. in Bailey.
1874. Van Buren, Dis. Genit. Org., 93. Stricture is only an epiphenomenon, and not the disease itself.
1876. Bristowe, Theory & Pract. Med. (ed. 2), 105. Fever is always secondary to some specific or other disease of which it is a mere epiphenomenon or symptom.
1882. Nature, XXVI. 640. Trombes and tornadoes are short epiphenomena of cyclones.
