pathognomonic

"Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom." (Webster, 1913)

Simply put, a finding is "pathognomonic" if it is so distinctive it makes the diagnosis obvious taken by itself. One might say, for example, that the classic rash of fifth disease is pathognomonic.

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