末まっ期き症しょう状じょう

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

terminal symptoms; sign of the approaching end

Used both medically for terminal illness symptoms and figuratively for signs that something is about to end or fail.

• 医い者しゃは患かん者じゃに末まっ期き症しょう状じょうが出でていると告つげた。

  The doctor told the patient that terminal symptoms had appeared.

• このプロジェクトは末まっ期き症しょう状じょうだ。誰だれもやる気きがない。

  This project is showing signs of the approaching end. No one is motivated.