Indication \In`di*ca"tion\, n. [L. indicatio: cf. F.
   indication.]
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   1. Act of pointing out or indicating.
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   2. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token;
      sign; symptom; evidence.
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            The frequent stops they make in the most convenient
            places are plain indications of their weariness.
                                                  --Addison.
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   3. Discovery made; information. --Bentley.
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   4. Explanation; display. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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   5. (Med.) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which
      serves to direct to suitable remedies. Opposite of
      contraindication.

   Syn: Proof; demonstration; sign; token; mark; evidence;
        signal.
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	indication
     n 1: something that serves to indicate or suggest; "an indication
          of foul play"; "indications of strain"; "symptoms are
          the prime indicants of disease" [syn: indicant]
     2: the act of indicating or pointing out by name [syn: denotation]
     3: (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a
        procedure; "the presence of bacterial infection was an
        indication for the use of antibiotics" [ant: contraindication]
     4: something (as a course of action) that is indicated as
        expedient or necessary; "there were indications that it
        was time to leave"
     5: a datum about some physical state that is presented to a
        user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not
        believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear
        indications of an approaching storm" [syn: reading, meter
        reading]

	

	109 Moby Thesaurus words for "indication":
   Christophany, Satanophany, adumbration, angelophany, appearance,
   augury, auspice, avatar, basis for belief, betokening, betokenment,
   body of evidence, broad hint, chain of evidence, clue, clues, cue,
   data, datum, degree, disclosure, dissemination, documentation,
   embodiment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exhibit, expression,
   fact, facts, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretoken,
   foretokening, forewarning, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer,
   glimmering, grounds, grounds for belief, hint, implication,
   incarnation, index, indicant, indications, inkling, innuendo,
   insinuation, intimation, item of evidence, kick, look,
   manifestation, mark, material grounds, materialization, measure,
   muniments, mute witness, nod, notion, nudge, omen,
   piece of evidence, pneumatophany, portent, prefiguration,
   preindication, premises, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign,
   premonitory symptom, presignifying, prognostic, prognostication,
   promise, prompt, proof, publication, reading, reason to believe,
   relevant fact, reminder, revelation, scent, shadow, sign, signal,
   significant, signs, soothsay, spoor, suggestion, suspicion,
   symptom, telltale, theophany, token, tokening, track, type,
   warning, whisper, wind, wink