Semantics: Can a physical occurrence be neither sign nor symptom?

[puzzlegal]

I forget. I think one of the vowels was different.

[Dewey_Finn]

As I remember, the word semantics was spelled symantics in the title.

[CC]

SDMB will have to continue to fight ignorance, I guess. sheesh

[Irishman]

@CC

Apologies for being so abstruse. I would like to know what to call an anomaly if it is not indicative of some illness or disease or problem. A sign is still a sign of something. A symptom is still a symptom of something. What is a condition that is not such a thing?

Is an anomaly always a “symptom”?
If I’m cold, is that a symptom or just something I’m experiencing?

Google AI Overview says
“A symptom is a change in the body or mind that indicates the presence of a disease or other abnormal cinondition.”

So I guess the word you want is “abnormal condition”.