adv. [f. prec. + -LY2; see -ICALLY.] In a symptomatic manner; in the way of, or as, a symptom (formerly often opp. to critically); in relation to symptoms.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 416. It is one thing for a thing to be done critically, and another thing to be done symptomatically; one thing to be done by force & contention of Nature, another by the force and contumacy of the malady.
1655. Culpepper, Riverius, VI. iv. 135. Somtimes abundance of Blood flows from the Gums, either Critically, or Symptomatically.
1713. Spregnell, in Phil. Trans., XXVIII. 130. If the Hæmorrhages had happened critically, and not symptomatically.
1742. Richardson, Pamela (1785), III. xli. 391. A Train of Thinking, which sometimes I get into…; I hope, only symptomatically, as you say.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 410. The disease [sc. jaundice] is also found symptomatically in pregnancy, colic, and fevers of various kinds.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 492. When a poisonous dose has been taken the stomach should be emptied, and the systemic efforts should be treated symptomatically.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xviii. 291. Gangrenous dysentery is symptomatically but an aggravated form of acute ulcerative dysentery.
So Symptomaticalness rare–0.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Symptomaticalness … being attended with Symptoms.
