What's a residual symptom?

I’ve spent 5 minutes trying to find out from google and I’m still none the wiser. The best I could find was the defintion of residual from a medical dictionary which was

residual

[rizij′o̅o̅·əl]

Etymology: L, residuum, remainder

1 adj, pertaining to the part of something that remains after an activity that removes the bulk of the substance.

2 n, (in psychology), an aftereffect of an experience that influences latent behavior.

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