a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Destitute of symptoms; exhibiting no symptoms.
1881. J. B. Johnson, Lett to Ed., in Evening Star, 22 Jan., 2/1. Let me repeat, for the sake of impressing upon the minds of parents the almost symptomless approach of diphtheria.
1886. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 3 July, 9/1. A case of stenosis of the pulmonary artery which was symptomless till the ninth or tenth year.
1889. J. M. Duncan, Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom., xviii. (ed. 4), 140. A limited and otherwise symptomless vaginitis … may bleed alarmingly.
